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The twelfth-century littérateur, courtier, and cleric Gerald of Wales (d. 1223) is an invaluable, if controversial, source for historians of Wales, Ireland, and the Plantagenet monarchy. Because Gerald was descended from both the Cambro-Norman castellans and the native Welsh princes of his half-conquered homeland, his voluminous writings – especially the Itinerarium Kambriae and Descriptio Kambriae – have been scoured by scholars interested in issues of identity and ethnicity. Literary scholars, particularly Monika Otter and David Rollo, have detected in his early works a dense, intra-referential text supportive of multiple, even subversive, interpretations. Less studied has been the De Rebus a se Gestis (c. 1208-1216); this most “autobiographical” of the three accounts Gerald wrote detailing his struggle to obtain metropolitan status for the see of St. David’s (1199-1203) survives in only one, incomplete, copy. The De Rebus a se Gestis has been under-valued and misunderstood; it is not, as one historian has described it, a mere “chronological” account of the St. David’s controversy. A close study of the text, especially when contrasted with other Geraldine sources such as the Symb

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Author

William G. Batchelder IV

Publisher

Ohio State University

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction