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• Chibnall, Marjorie. The World of Orderic Vitalis. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 1984.
  • This is a monograph from an academic publisher, so it should be a reliable source. Marjorie Chibnall has written extensively on this period of medieval history and has personally translated Orderic Vitalis' Historia Ecclesiastica. She can be considered an expert on Orderic Vitalis and the world in which he lived. The book covers the Norman and English world that Orderic Vitalis lived in and gives good information and evidence to support Orderic's professional contributions at Saint-Evroul.
• Nakashian, Craig M. “Orderic Vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon: Views of Clerical Warfare from Inside and Outside the Cloister.” In Between Sword and Prayer: Warfare and Medieval Clergy in Cultural Perspective, edited by Radoslaw Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, and John S. Ott. Leiden, NL: Brill, 2018.
  • This book chapter was published by an academic publisher, so it should be a reliable source. Craig Nakashian specializes in English and Norman history between the 11th and 13th century CE and can be considered a reliable historian whose work can be used to improve this article. Nakashian provides insight into how Orderic viewed himself and also his relationship with his father. This work will be helpful in developing Orderic's background in the article.
• Rozier, Charles C., Daniel Roach, Giles E.M. Gasper, and Elisabeth van Houts, eds. Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2016.
  • This collection of book chapters on Orderic Vitalis is published by an academic publisher and can be considered a reliable source. This collection of work is touted as one of the most comprehensive books on Orderic Vitalis, bhis life, and his work. The first three chapters will mainly be used in order to fill in any gaps the article and other sources have. It covers a range of topics from his early life to his time at Saint-Evroul to his professional works.

Outline of proposed changes

Orderic was born on 16 February 1075 in Atcham, Shropshire, England, the eldest son of a French priest, Odelerius of Orléans, who had entered the service of Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and had received from his patron a chapel there.

By the late 11th century, clerical marriage was still not uncommon in western Christendom.

• While clerical marriage was slowly being forbidden throughout Europe, the Archbishop in Rouen ran into resistance to policies that forced clergy to renounce their wives. This led to a more cautious approach by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It wasn't until 1076 that clerical marriage was forbidden for incoming clergy while those already married were allowed to retain their wives. Orderic's father, Odelerius had already married and had children so Orderic's birth had just evaded the new incoming policy from Rome.

Orderic was one of the few monks who were of mixed parentage as his mother was of English heritage. When Orderic was five, his parents sent him to an English monk, Siward by name, who kept a school in the Abbey of SS Peter and Paul at Shrewsbury.

At the age of ten, Orderic was entrusted as an oblate to the Abbey of Saint-Evroul in the Duchy of Normandy, which Montgomery had formerly despoiled but, in his later years, was loading with gifts. The parents paid thirty marks for their son's admission; he expresses the conviction that they imposed this exile upon him from an earnest desire for his welfare. Odelerius's respect for the monastic life is attested to by his own entry, a few years later, into a monastery which the earl had founded at his persuasion. Orderic, on the other hand, felt for some time, as he asserts, like Joseph in a strange land. He did not know a word of French when he reached Normandy. His book, though written many years later, shows that he never lost his English cast of mind or his attachment to the country of his birth.