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Giraldi Cambrensis opera By Giraldus Cambrensis

Giraldi Cambrensis opera by Giraldus Cambrensis


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Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career, Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, c.1146-1220/23) composed many literary works, including in volume 8 this moral treatise criticising the Angevin court. Giving a vivid picture of contemporary politics, the Latin text, with an editorial preface in English, was published in the Rolls Series in 1891.

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Giraldi Cambrensis opera by Giraldus Cambrensis

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career - his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him - Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146-1220/23) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Volume 8, edited by archivist George F. Warner (1845-1936) and published in 1891, contains his 'Liber de principis instructione', a moral treatise including much invective against the Angevin court. Written while Louis of France - in whose support Giraldus composed a poem - was scheming to replace King John, the Latin text, in Giraldus' vigorous and anecdotal style, gives a vivid picture of contemporary politics, while the English introduction illuminates nineteenth-century interest in the period.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Appendix to introduction; Liber de principis instructione; Index to vols. 1-4 and 8.

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NLS9781108042987
9781108042987
1108042988
Giraldi Cambrensis opera by Giraldus Cambrensis
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2012-11-15
546
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