Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 442.

Moneth Karn.

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By now, you're aware that one of our biggest sources

for this period of history are the works of

Orderick Vitalis, who was a Benedictine monk who, having been born in 1075, lived very

close in time to these events.

As such, he provides a critical near contemporary view

into these events, and specifically,

the period of time that we're moving into right now is covered in

orderic's sixth book and well I guess he wasn't happy with the response that he got

for books one through five because here's how he

opens up book six quote book six book six chapter one introduction containing remarks on scarless criticism and the decay of piety among the

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