Gerald of Wales
New Perspectives on a Medieval Writer and Critic
Distributed for University of Wales Press
336 pages
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5 color plates, 3 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2017
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Gerald of Wales; Interpretation and Innovation in Medieval Britain
Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullen
Section 1: Appropriating the Past
2 Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past
Huw Pryce
3 Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning
Ben Guy
4 Gerald of Wales, Walter Map and the Anglo-Saxon History of Lydbury North
Joshua Byron Smith
Section 2: Gerald the Writer: Manuscripts and Authorship
5 Gerald of Wales and the History of Llanthony Priory
Robert Bartlett
6 The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales
Catherine Rooney
7 Giraldian Beavers: Revision and the Making of Meaning in Gerald’s Early Works
Michael Faletra
8 Style, Truth and Irony: Listening to the Voice of Gerald of Wale’s Writings
Simon Meecham-Jones
Section 3: Gerald the Thinker: Religion and Worldview
9 Gerald of Wales’s Sense of Humour
Peter J. A. Jones
10 Fere tirannicus: Royal Tyranny and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in Gerald of Wales’s Vita Sancti Hugonis
Peter Raleigh
11 ‘ A Priest Is Not a Free Person’: Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in the Gemma ecclesiastica
Suzanne LaVere
12 Elements of Identity: Gerlad, the Humours and National Characteristics
Owain Nash
Section 4: Reception in England, Ireland and Wales
13 Gerald’s Circulation and Reception in Wales: The Case of Claddedigaeth Arthur
Georgia Henley
14 The Transmission of the Expugnatio Hibernica in Fifteenth-century Ireland
Caoimhe Whelan
15 Did the Tudors Read Giraldus? Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography
Brednand Kane
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Gerald of Wales; Interpretation and Innovation in Medieval Britain
Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullen
Section 1: Appropriating the Past
2 Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past
Huw Pryce
3 Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning
Ben Guy
4 Gerald of Wales, Walter Map and the Anglo-Saxon History of Lydbury North
Joshua Byron Smith
Section 2: Gerald the Writer: Manuscripts and Authorship
5 Gerald of Wales and the History of Llanthony Priory
Robert Bartlett
6 The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales
Catherine Rooney
7 Giraldian Beavers: Revision and the Making of Meaning in Gerald’s Early Works
Michael Faletra
8 Style, Truth and Irony: Listening to the Voice of Gerald of Wale’s Writings
Simon Meecham-Jones
Section 3: Gerald the Thinker: Religion and Worldview
9 Gerald of Wales’s Sense of Humour
Peter J. A. Jones
10 Fere tirannicus: Royal Tyranny and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in Gerald of Wales’s Vita Sancti Hugonis
Peter Raleigh
11 ‘ A Priest Is Not a Free Person’: Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in the Gemma ecclesiastica
Suzanne LaVere
12 Elements of Identity: Gerlad, the Humours and National Characteristics
Owain Nash
Section 4: Reception in England, Ireland and Wales
13 Gerald’s Circulation and Reception in Wales: The Case of Claddedigaeth Arthur
Georgia Henley
14 The Transmission of the Expugnatio Hibernica in Fifteenth-century Ireland
Caoimhe Whelan
15 Did the Tudors Read Giraldus? Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography
Brednand Kane
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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