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• W1672111747 abstract "Reviewed by: Christliche Weltgeschichte im 12. Jahrhundert: Themen, Variationen und Kontraste. Untersuchungen zu Hugo von Fleury, Ordericus Vitalis, und Otto von Freising by Elisabeth Mégier Charles Radding Christliche Weltgeschichte im 12. Jahrhundert: Themen, Variationen und Kontraste. Untersuchungen zu Hugo von Fleury, Ordericus Vitalis, und Otto von Freising. By Elisabeth Mégier. [Beihefte zur Mediaevistik, Band 13.] (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 2010. Pp. 437. $101.95 paperback. ISBN 978-3-631-60072-6.) This volume gathers together thirteen essays published by Elisabeth Mégier between 1985 and 2006. The articles—written in German, French, English, and Italian—deal with three historians all active in the first half of the twelfth century but interested in rather different slices of contemporary history. Hugh of Fleury, a member of a monastery south of Paris in the Diocese of Orléans, is especially known for his histories of the French kings and their kingdom; he died sometime after 1122. Orderic Vitalis was a monk of Saint-Evroul in Normandy—not far in distance from Fleury—but oriented toward the Anglo-Norman kingdom where he [End Page 359] was born rather than France; he died c. 1142. Mégier’s third subject, however, could hardly differ more from Hugh and Orderic. Otto, bishop of Freising (d. 1158), not only came from the highest ranks of the aristocracy (as fifth son of the margrave of Austria, he was a grandson of Emperor Henry IV and a cousin of Frederick Barbarossa) but also had experience in the schools of Paris before becoming a monk in the new Cistercian house of Morimond. His historical works, written after he became bishop in Freising in 1138, all principally concern Germany. In dealing with these writers, Mégier is not especially interested in how they went about gathering information about contemporary history or even what significance they attributed to specific events. Rather, her interest lies in their broader conceptions of human history and its relationship with Christian theology and the twelfth-century church. The longest essay by far, nearly 140 pages, is devoted to a study of Otto of Freising’s two historical works—the Chronica de duabus civitatibus and the Gesta Friderici Imperatoris—or, more precisely, of the path that led Otto from the explicitly Augustinian framework of the Chronica, in which the earthly empire is contrasted to the heavenly city, to the attitudes seen in the Gesta Friderici where the empire is seen as having a value in itself. Here, as elsewhere in the volume, Mégier’s method is predicated on a close reading of Otto’s texts and especially for their philosophical and theological underpinnings. The essays as a group apply these methods to a wide variety of questions raised by the works of the three historians studied by Mégier. For example, the first (and earliest) essay, inspired by Jacques LeGoff’s book on the origins of idea of purgatory, takes up how Orderic and Otto thought about the afterlife. Another essay parses the way Orderic and Otto conceived the role of fortuna in historical events, whereas a third compares how they integrated the creation of the Cistercian order into their histories. (It is interesting that Otto, the Cistercian, does not mention the Cistercian order by name, even as he notes innovations in monasticism generally.) Two essays discuss how Orderic conceived the operation of Christ and God in history. For Hugh of Fleury, similarly, she writes about his historical treatment of the Jews in the biblical and Roman period, the Old Testament, and Charlemagne. Charles Radding Michigan State University Copyright © 2015 The Catholic University of America Press" @default.
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