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Robert of Torigni’s “pragmatic literacy”: some theoretical considerations [PDF]
Tabularia, 2022 This article offers some theoretical considerations on the literacy of Robert of Torigni (1106-1186), monk/prior of Le Bec (dép. Eure, cant. Brionne) and abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel (dép. Manche, cant. Pontorson), and one of the most celebrated historians
Benjamin Pohl
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The Scripts of Robert of Torigni: Some Notes of Conjectural History [PDF]
Tabularia, 2019 This article argues that, while in agreement with B. Pohl that certain annotations in manuscripts of mid s. xii can safely be attributed to the hand of Robert of Torigni (RT), other passages (chiefly in Avranches, Bibliothèque patrimoniale, ms 210, fol ...
Thomas N. Bisson
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Robert of Torigni’s Liber Chronicorum: The Chronography as a textual project in Avranches, Bibliothèque patrimoniale, ms 159 [PDF]
Tabularia, 2021 The manuscript Avranches, Bibliothèque patrimoniale, 159 is an extraordinary piece of evidence for the writing of universal chronicles in twelfth century Normandy. It contains the “working-copy” of the chronicle of Robert of Torigni (1106-1186), abbot of
Gabriele Passabì
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Retour sur l’identification de la Naturalis historia de Pline l’Ancien corrigée par Robert de Torigni [PDF]
Tabularia, 2023 In 2007, Michael D. Reeve proposed to identify the manuscript Le Mans, Médiathèque Louis-Aragon, 263, a beautiful 12th-century witness of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis historia, with the codex kept at the Mont Saint-Michel between the middle of the 12th ...
Elisa Lonati
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The Chronography of Robert of Torigni, Thomas N. Bisson (éd. et trad. angl.) [PDF]
Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 2023 Thomas N. Bisson a élaboré, sur un millier de pages, l’excellente édition de l’œuvre historique de l’abbé normand Robert de Torigni, sa traduction anglaise et une longue introduction sur la biographie du chroniqueur, la nature de son travail et ses manuscrits. La remarquable édition de Th. N.
Aurell, Martin
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Tabularia, 2022 If the annals of the abbey of Le Mont Saint-Michel have not lacked for scholarly attention, they have never before been examined in relation to an annalistic text written outside of the Benedictine network.
Richard Allen
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Écrire l’histoire des abbés du Mont Saint-Michel1. Les auteurs du De abbatibus
Tabularia, 2017 This research into the De abbatibus hujus loci rubrica abreviata, a chronicle of the abbots of Mont Saint-Michel, has two objectives. The first (this paper) is to identify the authors and the writing periods of this text.
Stéphane Lecouteux
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Tabularia, 2018 Mastering time was one of the major issues for chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages. This investigation into the method adopted by Robert of Torigni to compose his chronicle of the abbots of Mont Saint-Michel highlights the three preliminary ...
Stéphane Lecouteux
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Écrire l’histoire de la Normandie dans le Chronicon de Hugues de Saint-Victor
TabulariaThis paper explores the way Hugh of Saint-Victor perceives and interprets the past of the duchy of Normandy in his Chronicon. A didactic work, the Chronicon offers a synthesis, the sources of which are difficult to identify, which leaves little doubt ...
Hugo Fresnel
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The memory of Robert of Torigni from the twelfth century to the present day
, 2022 This article studies the memory of Robert of Torigni († in 1186) from both an “internal” and an “external” perspective. It begins by investigating the way(s) in which Robert and his legacy were remembered and celebrated by the monks of his two monastic communities, Le Bec-Hellouin and Mont Saint-Michel, during the years and decades following his death,
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