Contents

pp v-v

List of Plates

pp vi-vi

Preface to the paperback edition

pp vii-viii

Preface to the first edition

pp ix-x

Abbreviations

pp xi-xiv

Part I - Context, Character and Achievement

pp 1-2

1 - William of Malmesbury and his Environment

pp 3-13

2 - William as Historian and Man of Letters

pp 14-39

3 - William's Reading

pp 40-75

4 - William's ‘Scriptorium’

pp 76-96

5 - The Earliest Books from the Library of Malmesbury Abbey

pp 97-116

Part II - Studies of the Writer at Work

pp 117-118

6 - William's Edition of the Liber Pontificalis

pp 119-136

7 - William's Carolingian Sources

pp 137-153

8 - William and the Letters of Alcuin

pp 154-167

9 - William and some other Western Writers on Islam

pp 168-177

10 - William as Historian of Crusade

pp 178-188

11 - William and the Noctes Atticae

pp 189-198

Appendix I - The Date of William's Birth

pp 199-201

Appendix II - List of Works Known to William at First Hand

pp 202-214

Appendix III - Contents and Significant Readings of the Gellius Florilegium

pp 215-224

Select Bibliography

pp 225-228

Index of Manuscripts

pp 229-231

General Index

pp 232-240