Ormulum

English Etymology From the author’s name, en Orm, modeled after Latin la speculum mirror,H. C. G. Matthew; Brian Harrison The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 41 Oxford, Oxon Clarendon Press 2004 936 0-19-861391-1. so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre. Proper noun the Ormulum en historical literature A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm. References en eponyms en Books