Gerald of Wales : new perspectives on a medieval writer and critic / edited by George Henley and A. Joseph McMullen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henley, Georgia, editor.

McMullen, A. Joseph, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?.

Giraldus.

History.

Historiography.

Wales--History--1063-1284--Historiography.

Wales.

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Gerald of Wales: Interpretation and Innovation in Medieval Britain

Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullenSection 1: Appropriating the Past2 Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past

Huw Pryce3 Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning

Ben Guy4 Gerald of Wales, Walter Map and the Anglo-Saxon History of Lydbury North

Joshua Byron Smith5 Gerald of Wales and the History of Llanthony Priory

Robert Bartlett6 The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales

Catherine Rooney7 Giraldian Beavers: Revision and the Making of Meaning in Gerald's Early Works

Michael Faletra8 Style, Truth and Irony: Listening to the Voice of Gerald of Wales's Writings

Simon Meecham-JonesSection 3: Gerald the Thinker: Religion and Worldview9 Gerald of Wales's Sense of Humour

Peter J. A. Jones10 Fere tirannicus: Royal Tyranny and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in Gerald of Wales's Vita Sancti Hugonis

Peter Raleigh11 'A Priest Is Not a Free Person': Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in the Gemma ecclesiastica

Suzanne LaVere12 Elements of Identity: Gerald, the Humours and National Characteristics

Owain NashSection 4: Reception in England, Ireland and Wales13 Gerald's Circulation and Reception in Wales: The Case of Claddedigaeth Arthur

Georgia Henley14 The Transmission of the Expugnatio Hibernica in Fifteenth-century Ireland

Caoimhe Whelan15 Did the Tudors Read Giraldus? Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography

Brendan KaneAfterword Bibliography Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781786831668

178683166X

Publisher Number:

99975445978

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