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Hardcover, x + 227pp + 12 pages of glossy b&w facsimiles, appendix ("Handlist of works known to William at first hand", "Contents and significant readings of the Gellius Florilegium"), index of manuscripts, general index. Missing the dust jacket. Ex-university library marked "no longer the property of"; external stamps on all outer page edges crossed out in black marker (vaguely showing along some page edges inside the book); cancelled internal markings (a bookplate inside the front board, stamped both sides of title page, pencil inventory numbers, an insert on last blank endpaper, a pocket and barcode sticker inside the rear board). Pages are gently age-toned in clean condition with unmarked text and firm binding. Free of any foxing and age-spotting. Boards show light handling wear, a cancelled library sticker in upper corner of the rear board, an inventory label on lower spine. -- "Although best know for his historical writings, William was also a biblical commentator, biographer and classicist; his intellectual achievement is studied here." - "This is a comprehensive study and interpretation of William's intellectual achievement, looking at the man and his times and his work as man of letters, and considering the earliest books from Malmesbury Abbey library, William's reading, and his 'scriptorium'. Important in its own right, William's achievement is also set in the wider context of Benedictine learning and the writing of history in the twelfth century, and on England's contribution to the 12th-century Renaissance." -- Contents: William of Malmesbury and his environment; William as historian and man of letters; William's reading; William's 'Scriptorium'; The earliest books from the library of Malmesbury Abbey; William's edition of the Liber Pontificalis; William's Carolingian sources; William and the letters of Alcuin; William and some other western writers on Islam; William as historian of Crusade; William and the Noctes Atticae. Seller Inventory # 009611
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