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[email protected]. Celestial Divination and Arabic Science in Twelfth-Century England: The History of Gerbert of Aurillac’s Talking Head E. R. Truitt Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 73, Number 2, April 2012, pp. 201-222 (Article) Published by University of Pennsylvania Press DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2012.0016 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jhi/summary/v073/73.2.truitt.html Access Provided by Bryn Mawr College at 07/20/12 4:27PM GMT Celestial Divination and Arabic Science in Twelfth-Century England: The History of Gerbert of Aurillac’s Talking Head E. R. Truitt In the Gesta regum anglorum (ca. 1125), William of Malmesbury, an Anglo-Norman monk and historian, interrupted his history of the kings of England with a lengthy digression on Gerbert of Aurillac, the scholar, teacher, and bishop who became Pope Sylvester II (999–1003).