Author: GildasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Works of Gildas and Nennius. Translated from the Latin, and with the Former Translations Carefully Compared and Corrected
Author: GildasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Works of Gildas and Nennius. Translated from the Latin, and with the Former Translations ... Compared and Corrected, by J. A. Giles
Author: John Allen GilesThe Works of Gildas and Nennius. Translated from the Latin, and with the Former Translations Carefully Compared and Corrected. By J.A. Giles, LL.D. Late Fellow of C. C. Coll. Oxford
Author: John Allen GilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The Works of Gildas and Nennius, Tr. by J. A. Giles
Author: GildasPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230218779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. Of Gildas, the supposed author of this work, little or nothing is known. Mr. Stevenson, in the Preface to his edition of the original Latin, lately published by the English Historical Society, says: "We are unable to speak with certainty as to his parentage, his country, or even his name, the period when he lived, or the works of which he was the author." Such a statement is surely sufficient to excuse us at present from saying more on the subject, than that he is supposed to have lived and have written what remains under his name during some part of the sixth century. It may not be irrelevant to inform the reader that he may shortly expect some valuable elucidations from the pen of Mr. Wright, who has kindly communicated to the translator his intention to reduce the History of Gildas to so shadowy a state of existence that no more than a nominis umbra will remain. Of the present translation, the first or historic half is entirely new; in the rest, consisting almost entirely of texts from Scripture, the translator has thought it quite sufficient to follow the old translation of Habington, correcting whatever errors he could detect, and in some degree relieving the quaint and obsolete character of the language. It has been remarked by Polydore Virgil, that Gildas quotes no other book but the Bible; and it may be added, that his quotations are in other words than those of the Vulgate or common authorized translation. The title of the old translation is as follows: "The epistle of Gildas the most ancient British Author: who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, Sanctitie, and wisdome, acquired the name of Sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine." London, 12mo. 1638. THE WORKS...
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book rarities
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The bibliographer's manual of English literature, containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, publ. in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Anglo-Saxon Kings and Warlords AD 400–1070
Author: Raffaele D’AmatoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472855361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest. In a country fragmented by Roman withdrawal during the 5th century AD, the employment of Germanic mercenaries by local rulers in Anglo-Saxon Britain was commonplace. These mercenaries became settlers, forcing Romano-British communities into Wales and the West Country. Against a background of spreading Christianity, the struggles of rival British and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were exploited by the Vikings, but eventually contained by the Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred of Wessex. His descendants unified the country during the 10th century, however, subsequent weak rule saw its 25-year incorporation into a Danish empire before it finally fell to the Norman invasion of 1066. Scholars of the early Church have long known that the term 'Dark Ages' for the 5th to 11th centuries in Britain refers only to a lack of written sources, and gives a false impression of material culture. The Anglo-Saxon warrior elite were equipped with magnificent armour, influenced by the cultures of the late Romans, the Scandinavian Vendel people, the Frankish Merovingians, Carolingians and Ottonians, and also the Vikings. In this volume, co-authors Raffaele D'Amato and Stephen Pollington access their extended knowledge to paint a vivid picture of the kings and warlords of the time with the aid of colour illustrations, rare photos and the latest archaeological research.
Post-Roman Kingdoms
Author: Raffaele D’AmatoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472850912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Meticulously researched, this book examines the evidence for the post-Roman military forces of France and Britain during the 'Dark Ages', reconstructing their way of life and the battles they fought in compelling detail. The collapse of the former Western Roman Empire during the so called 'Dark Ages' c. AD 410 was gradual and piecemeal. Out of this vacuum arose regional tribes and leaders determined to take back kingdoms that were theirs and oust any Roman presence for good. However, the Roman guard was tenacious and survived in small pockets that emerged in both Gaul and Britain. These areas of Romano-Celtic resistance held out against the Saxons until at least the mid 6th century in Britain and against the Visigoths and the Merovingian Franks until the late 8th century in France. Drawing on archaeological finds, contemporary sculpture and manuscript illuminations, Dr Raffaele D'Amato presents contemporary evidence for 5th to 9th-century Gallic and British 'Dark Age' armies and reconstructs their way of life and the battles they fought. The text, accompanied by photographs and colour illustrations, paints an intricate picture of how these disparate groups of Roman soldiers survived and adapted on the fringes of the Roman Empire.