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4 days ago · Gerald of Wales in his Life of St Ethelbert records a tradition that the great episcopal manor of Lydbury North in Shropshire was given by 'Egwinus quatiens caput' to the church of Hereford following the murder of King Ethelbert of East Angliaby Offa, king of Mercia (757-96) and the establishment of Ethelbert's martyr cult at Hereford. This ...
Gerald of Wales (a Norman priest and historian) created very disparaging and damaging stereotypes about the Irish to justify the conquest of Ireland, such as being lazy, uncivilised etc. In reality, Ireland was likely no different to rural England or Wales (especially Wales because the society and culture was similar to Ireland).
5 days ago · Keywords: Brecon, Gerald of Wales, historical memory, Llanthony Priory, manuscript studies, March of Wales, medieval genealogy, medieval Wales, monastic patronage, William Dugdale. Subject. Literary Studies (Early and Medieval) Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online.
May 13, 2024 · As early as the 12th century, the wandering clergyman Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) noted the Welsh love of music and gift for singing in harmony, “melding in the soft sweetness of B-flat.” But in truth, the modern phenomenon of male voice choirs was stirred from the cauldron of the 18th/19th-century religious and industrial revolution.
6 days ago · In the next two chapters Johns uses Nest as a starting point to contextualise her gendered analysis of the conquest of Wales and Welsh politics by analysing the wider experience of noblewomen: first by focusing on the works of Nest’s grandson, Gerald of Wales, and second on charter evidence.
May 6, 2024 · 2018-02-01 A. Joseph McMullen 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.
1 day ago · The medieval chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) had topography, history, and current events alike in mind when he observed that Wales is a “country very strongly defended by high mountains, deep valleys, extensive woods, rivers, and marshes; insomuch that from the time the Saxons took possession of the island the remnants of the ...
