Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church

August 8th, 2010 |

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Gildas’s De excidio Britonum is almost the sole surviving contemporary source for the period which saw the beginning of the transformation of post-Roman Britain into Anglo-Saxon England. However, although the De excidio has received much scholarly attention over the last forty years, the value of the text as a primary source for this fascinating if obscure period of British history has been limited by our lack of knowledge concerning its historical and cultural cont… More >>

Gildas’s De Excidio Britonum and the early British Church