Notes on Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), Circa 1147-1223 A.D.
Author: T.R. Phillips
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 19
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Author: T.R. Phillips
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 19
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 1001
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Charles-Edwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0192869167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDe gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223), written in the third person but actually by Gerald himself, and framed as the biography of a bishop although Gerald never became a bishop. Gerald was born in south-west Wales of mixed Norman and Welsh descent and educated at Gloucester and in Paris. He worked for Henry II and Richard I, by whom he was valued as an intermediary between the king and Gerald's relations, who included the leading Welsh king, Rhys ap Gruffudd, and many of the first English settlers in Ireland. When elected bishop of St Davids, Gerald was sent by his fellow-canons to Rome to secure his own consecration and metropolitan status for St Davids; ultimately, both cases failed, defeated by the combined power and resources of the English state and church. Near the beginning of this final part, the single MS breaks off, but the chapter-headings show that much of the substance is preserved in another work by Gerald. His career spanned Wales, Ireland, and England, Paris and Rome, and De gestis Giraldi offers a vivid and personal view of them all. This volume has been prepared from a critical study of the extant manuscript, and features an accompanying English translation. The edition supports the translation and text with an authoritative introduction, extensive historical notes, and critical study of the work.
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Published: 1979
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.
Author: George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-06-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 3385509068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author: Ella S. Armitage
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brendan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-31
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1108625258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.
Author: Jochen Burgtorf
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9004166602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom their humble beginnings in Jerusalem as a late eleventh-century hospital and an early twelfth-century pilgrim escort, Hospitallers and Templars evolved into international military religious orders, engaged in numerous charitable, economic, and military pursuits. At the heart of each of these communities, and in many ways a mirror of their growth and adaptability, was a central convent led by several high officials and headquartered first in Jerusalem (to 1187), then in Acre (1191-1291), and then on Cyprus (since 1291), from where the Hospitallers conquered Rhodes (1306-1310), and where fate in the form of a heresy trial caught up with the Templars. The history, organization, and personnel of these two central convents to 1310 are the subject of this comparative study.