Orderic Vitalis Collaborative Research Network

The Orderic Vitalis Collaborative Research Network comprises Durham University, University of East Anglia, University of Lincoln and University of York, with postgraduate attendees from Bamberg University and University of Exeter.

Participants include: Professor Stephen Church (UEA) Dr Giles Gasper (Durham) Professor Sandy Heslop (UEA), Dr Joanna Huntington (Lincoln), Dr Tom O'Donnell (York), Dr Elizabeth Tyler (York), Dr Sethina Watson (York), Henry Bainton (York), Pete Davidson (UEA), Helen Lunnon (UEA), Jane Nancarrow (York), Benjamin Pohl (Bamberg), Daniel Roach (Exeter), Charlie Rozier (Durham), Kate Thomas (York).

The network exists to read the Ecclesiastical History of the early twelfth-century monastic chronicler, Orderic Vitalis, in an inter-disciplinary environment, bringing together literary, historical, art-historical and theological approaches to this fascinating narrative: of Orderic's church, St Evroul, of the Norman people and church, of the western Frankish kingdoms, and of the western Church in an age of reform.

Group meetings, of staff and postgraduate researchers, take place concurrently at York and Norwich throughout the academic years 2009-2011. A meeting of both groups for a research workshop conversation took place 28-29 May, 2010, at Durham under the aegis of the IMRS, and a further meeting is planned for May 2011.