Gerald of Wales

Dr. Georgia Henley & Dr. A. Joseph McMullen

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Gerald of Wales (c.1146–c.1223), widely recognized for his innovative ethnographic studies of Ireland and Wales, was in fact the author of some twenty-three works which touch upon many aspects of twelfth-century life. Despite their valuable insights, these works have been vastly understudied. This collection of essays reassesses Gerald’s importance as a medieval Latin writer and rhetorician by focusing on his lesser-known works and providing a fuller context for his more popular writings. This broader view of his corpus brings to light new evidence for his rhetorical strategies, political positioning and usage of source material, and attests to the breadth and depth of his collected works.

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

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Medieval

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786831651
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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gerald of wales

gerald of wales New Perspectives on a Medieval Writer and Critic

Edited by Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullen

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2018

© The Contributors, 2018

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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

3

Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past Huw Pryce

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

6

Gerald of Wales and theHistory of Llanthony Priory Robert Bartlett

The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales Catherine Rooney

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vi Gerald of Wales

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Giraldian Beavers: Revision and the Making of Meaning in Gerald’s Early Works Michael Faletra

Style,Truth and Irony: Listening to theVoice 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

10Fere tirannicusConstruction of: Royal Tyranny and the Episcopal Sanctity in Gerald of Wales’sVita Sancti Hugonis  Peter Raleigh

11 ‘A Priest Is Not a Free Person’: Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in theGemma 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 theExpugnatio Hibernicain Fifteenthcentury Ireland  Caoimhe Whelan

15 Did the Tudors Read Giraldus? Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography  Brendan Kane

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

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Acknowledgements

The editors are very grateful to Harvard University’s Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies, the Provostial Fund Committee for the Arts and Humanities, and Sententiae: The Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Medieval Studies, for their generous support of the conference which rst united this group of scholars under one roof in April 2015.We owe a debt of gratitude to the faculty, staff and students of Harvard’s Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, especially Professor Catherine McKenna, Mary Violette and Steven Duede, for their very kind assistance. We thank the conference attendees and speakers who do not appear in this volume but who nevertheless shaped it with their enthusiastic participation and comments: Christopher Berard, Ann and Charlie Heymann, Stephen Jones, Lindsey Panxhi, Joel Pattison, Diarmuid Scully, Victoria Shirley, and many others. We are grateful to our anonymous reviewer and to the staff at University of Wales Press (particularly Bethan Phil lips, Elin Lewis, Sarah Lewis and Dafydd Jones) for their careful attention and guidance, and to Paul Russell for his gracious assistance.We thank the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Ofce at the University of Connecticut and the Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies for their generous support of the colour images in the volume.

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Abbreviations

Catalogus

De invectionibus

De iure

De principis instructione

De rebus

Descriptio

Epistola ad capitulum

Expugnatio

Catalogusbreviorlibrorumsuorum(‘A Catalogue of his Shorter Works’), in J. S. Brewer (ed.),Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 8/1 (London, 1861) (‘On Shameful Attacks’), in W. S. Davies (ed.), ‘The Book of Invectives of Giraldus Cambrensis’, Y Cymmrodor, 30 (1920), 1–248 DeiureetstatuMenevensisecclesiae(‘On the Rights and Status of the Church of St Davids’), in J. S. Brewer (ed.),Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 8/3 (London, 1863) (‘Instruction for a Ruler’), in G. F. Warner (ed.), Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 8/8 (London, 1891) Derebusasegestis(‘On The Things He Has Achieved’), in J. S. Brewer (ed.),Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 8/1 (London, 1861) DescriptioKambriae(‘Description of Wales’), in J. F. Dimock (ed.),Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 8/6 (London, 1868) EpistolaadcapitulumHerefordense(‘Letter to the Chapter at Hereford’), in J. S. Brewer (ed.), Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, 8/1 (London, 1861) ExpugnatioHibernica(‘Conquest of Ireland’), in A. B. Scott and F. X. Martin (ed. and trans.), Expugnatio Hibernica:The Conquest of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis(Dublin, 1978)