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Gerald of Wales (c.1146-c.1223), widely recognised for his innovative ethnographic studies of Ireland and Wales, was the author of works that touch upon many aspects of twelfth-century life. Despite their valuable insights, these works numbering twenty-three have been vastly understudied, and the collection of essays in the present volume reassesses Gerald's importance as a medieval Latin writer by focusing on the lesser-known works, and by providing a fuller context for his better-known writings. This broader view of his corpus brings to light new evidence for the rhetorical strategies that he employed, his political positioning, and his use of source material, in attesting to the breadth and depth of his work.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
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
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 Wales'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: Gerald, 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 - Brendan Kane
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
