August 9th, 2010 | 
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Gildas’s ‘De Excidio Britanniae’ is the prime source of our knowledge of post-Roman Britain, but because it is such an isolated text, for which we have no obvious historical, geographical or cultural background, it is a work which raises more questions than answers. Much effort has been expended on extracting historical facts from ‘De excidio’, but Gildas did not set out to write history as we understand it. The common approach of the contributors to this volume is … More >>
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