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  • Three Medieval Chroniclers: Monastic Historiography and Biblical Eschatology in Hugh of St. Victor, Otto of Freising, and Ordericus Vitalis

  • Ray C. Petry
  • Journal:
    Church History / Volume 34 / Issue 3 / September 1965
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2009, pp. 282-293
    Print publication:
    September 1965

  • The middle of the twelfth century marked an upsurge in historical awareness and a revitalization of the practice of historiography.1 Exemplifying this trend were three men who flourished and died within twenty years of each other. Hugh of St. Victor projected a manysided view of history. Otto of Freising and Ordericus Vitalis were universalizing historians.2 None was an academic professional after the fashion of our modern guild. Each followed a monastic vocation. All protested any evisceration of time and history, every attempt to evacuate humanity therefrom. They extended the Augustinian emphasis on the key role of the Divine in the Hebrew-Christian tradition.

  • Unitive Reform Principles of the Late Medieval Conciliarists

  • Ray C. Petry
  • Journal:
    Church History / Volume 31 / Issue 2 / June 1962
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2009, pp. 164-181
    Print publication:
    June 1962

  • The first two words of the title simply accent the conciliarist refusal to separate Christian reform and ecclesiastical unity. Pierre d'Ailly insisted that there could be no true reformation without union, no true union without reformation. The principles necessarily delimited here in terms of their most frequently recurring expression are discussed under five large heads.

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