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

Edition 1st Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary This collection of essays re-evaluates the significance of Gerald of Wales as a medieval Latin writer, presenting new research on lesser-studied aspects of his corpus and a fuller context for his more popular works Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223? SUBJECT Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223? fast Subject Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) British & Irish history. Medieval history. HISTORY -- Medieval. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) Historiography SUBJECT Wales -- History -- 1063-1284 -- Historiography Subject Wales Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Henley, Georgia, editor McMullen, A. Joseph, editor ISBN 9781786831668 178683166X 9781786831675 1786831678 9781786831651 1786831651

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