Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF PLATES vi
4. PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION vii
5. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION ix
6. ABBREVIATIONS xi
7. PART I CONTEXT, CHARACTER AND ACHIEVEMENT
8. 1 WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY AND HIS ENVIRONMENT 3
9. 2 WILLIAM AS HISTORIAN AND MAN OF LETTERS 14
10. 3 WILLIAM’S READING 40
11. 4 WILLIAM’S ‘SCRIPTORIUM’ 76
12. 5 THE EARLIEST BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF MALMESBURY ABBEY 97
13. PART II STUDIES OF THE WRITER AT WORK
14. 6 WILLIAM’S EDITION OF THE LIBER PONTIFICALIS 119
15. 7 WILLIAM’S CAROLINGIAN SOURCES 137
16. 8 WILLIAM AND THE LETTERS OF ALCUIN 154
17. 9 WILLIAM AND SOME OTHER WESTERN WRITERS ON ISLAM 168
18. 10 WILLIAM AS HISTORIAN OF CRUSADE 178
19. 11 WILLIAM AND THE NOCTES ATTICAE 189
20. APPENDIX I THE DATE OF WILLIAM’S BIRTH 199
21. APPENDIX II LIST OF WORKS KNOWN TO WILLIAM AT FIRST HAND 202
22. APPENDIX III CONTENTS AND SIGNIFICANT READINGS OF THE GELLIUS FLORILEGIUM 215
23. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 225
24. INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS 229
25. GENERAL INDEX 232