William of Malmesbury
English monk and chronicler (c.1095 – c.1143)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 1090
- Died
- 1143
- Works
- 47
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,676x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,968x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,036x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to William of Malmesbury, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Willelmi Malmesburiensis monachi opera omnia : quae varii quondam editores, Henricus Savilius, Thomas Galaeus, Henricus Warton, et nuper D. Thomas Duffus Hardy in lucem seorsim emiserunt Willelmi scripta, nunc primum, praevia diligentissima emendatione, prelo in unum collecta mandantur
Willelmi Malmesburiensis monachi opera omnia. quae varii quondam editores, ... nunc primum, praevia diligentissima emendatione, prelo in unum collecta mandantur. Accurante J.-P. Migne
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Article
Stained-glass window showing William, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1928 in memory of Rev. Canon C. D. H. McMillan, vicar of Malmesbury from 1907 to 1919 William of Malmesbury (Latin: Willelmus Malmesbiriensis; c. 1095 – c. 1143) was the foremost English historian of the 12th century. Modern historian C. Warren Hollister described him as "a gifted historical scholar and an omnivorous reader, impressively well versed in the literature of classical, patristic, and earlier medieval times as well as in the writings of his own contemporaries. Indeed William may well have been the most learned man in twelfth-century Western Europe."
William was born about 1095 or 1096 in Wiltshire, England. His father was Norman and his mother English. He spent his whole life in England and his adult life as a monk at Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire.
