Gerald of Wales

This collection of essays re-evaluates the significance of Gerald of Wales as a medieval Latin writer, presenting new research on lesser-studied aspects of his corpus and a fuller context for his more popular works.

List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsGerald of Wales: Interpretation and Innovation in Medieval Britain - Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullenSection 1: Appropriating the Past2 Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past - Huw Pryce3 Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning - Ben Guy4 Gerald of Wales, Walter Map and the Anglo-Saxon History of Lydbury North - Joshua Byron Smith5 Gerald of Wales and the History of Llanthony Priory - Robert Bartlett6 The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales - Catherine Rooney7 Giraldian Beavers: Revision and the Making of Meaning in Gerald’s Early Works - Michael Faletra8 Style, Truth and Irony: Listening to the Voice of Gerald of Wales’s Writings - Simon Meecham-JonesSection 3: Gerald the Thinker: Religion and Worldview9 Gerald of Wales’s Sense of Humour - Peter J. A. Jones10 Fere tirannicus: Royal Tyranny and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in Gerald of Wales’s Vita Sancti Hugonis - Peter Raleigh11 ‘A Priest Is Not a Free Person’: Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in the Gemma ecclesiastica - Suzanne LaVere12 Elements of Identity: Gerald, the Humours and National Characteristics - Owain NashSection 4: Reception in England, Ireland and Wales13 Gerald’s Circulation and Reception in Wales: The Case of Claddedigaeth Arthur - Georgia Henley14 The Transmission of the Expugnatio Hibernica in Fifteenth-century Ireland - Caoimhe Whelan15 Did the Tudors Read Giraldus? Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography - Brendan KaneAfterwordBibliographyIndex