‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship
(2024)
Journal Article
Strahl, H. C. (2025). ‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship. Journal of Medieval History, 51(1), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2024.2436042
The eight complete contemporary accounts of the 1120 wreck of the White Ship offer a unique opportunity to study emotions, remembrance and the writing of recent history in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman society. This essay analyses and compares Orderic... Read More about ‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship.