Giraldi Cambrensis opera (Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls)

Cambrensis, Giraldus/ Warner, George F./ Brewer, J. S. (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2012/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 558 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108042918
• DDC分類 941.03

Full Description

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.1146-1220/3) 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 1, edited by historian J. S. Brewer (1809-79) and published in 1861, with an introduction in English to the Latin texts, consists of Giraldus' polemical-apologetic account of his life and the St David's case, and a collection of his letters, poems, and prefaces. Giraldus is noted for his vigorous Latin and anecdotal style, and this volume gives a vivid portrait of medieval Britain and the power struggles of the Angevin court, while illuminating nineteenth-century interest in the period.

Contents

Preface; De rebus a se gestis; Invectionum libellus; Symbolum electorum; De Giraldo Archidiacono Menevensi; Epistola ad St Langton; Epistola ad captitulum Herefordense de libris suis; Catalogus brevior librorum; Retractationes; Appendix.