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Table of Contents
Introduction
The Preface
Gildas and the Lamentations of Jeremiah
The construction of the patterns in the DEB
The Historia
The Kings
Gildas and the British Church
The DEB and the Vita Germani
Conclusions
Epilogue
List of sources and bibliography
Appendix
The Preface
Gildas and the Lamentations of Jeremiah
The construction of the patterns in the DEB
The Historia
The Kings
Gildas and the British Church
The DEB and the Vita Germani
Conclusions
Epilogue
List of sources and bibliography
Appendix
Reviews
An important book. SPECULUM
It will appeal to the theologian, historian and classicist [and] provides essential reading for those studying De Excidio Britonum or the early British Church. ARTHURIANA
A tightly written new book which explores exciting new aspects of [Gildas's] major surviving work. [...] This is a useful new work which sets out new thinking on the structuring of Gildas's work and seeks to position him within the doctrinal debates of the day. It achieves both aims succinctly and opens interesting new avenues to explore. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
A tightly written new book on the subject of Gildas's De Excidio which explores exciting new aspects of this, his major surviving work. [...] This is a useful new work, therefore, which sets out new thinking on the structuring of Gildas's work and seeks to position him within the doctrinal debates of the day. It achieves both aims succinctly and opens interesting new avenues to explore, and that is an important service in itself, given the problematic nature of this most difficult of early British texts. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
It will appeal to the theologian, historian and classicist [and] provides essential reading for those studying De Excidio Britonum or the early British Church. ARTHURIANA
A tightly written new book which explores exciting new aspects of [Gildas's] major surviving work. [...] This is a useful new work which sets out new thinking on the structuring of Gildas's work and seeks to position him within the doctrinal debates of the day. It achieves both aims succinctly and opens interesting new avenues to explore. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
A tightly written new book on the subject of Gildas's De Excidio which explores exciting new aspects of this, his major surviving work. [...] This is a useful new work, therefore, which sets out new thinking on the structuring of Gildas's work and seeks to position him within the doctrinal debates of the day. It achieves both aims succinctly and opens interesting new avenues to explore, and that is an important service in itself, given the problematic nature of this most difficult of early British texts. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
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