Gildas' Legendary History of Post-Roman Britain
The paper will attempt to determine a date-range for Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae by cross-referencing an era-specific knowledge of lifespans derived from archaeology and written records, with our growing understanding of oral memory. The results will provide the basic tools for employing liv...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2025, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-24 |
| Further subjects: | B
Oral Memory
B Superbus Tyrannus B Living Memory B De Excidio Britanniae B Gildas |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | The paper will attempt to determine a date-range for Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae by cross-referencing an era-specific knowledge of lifespans derived from archaeology and written records, with our growing understanding of oral memory. The results will provide the basic tools for employing living history and oral memory to better study the historical events that Gildas mentions. This will allow for a chronological reevaluation of Gildas’s historical preface, and a discrete date-range for the letter's creation. The date-range will then be used with respect to what we know of Gildas's sources and the limitations of oral history to better understand how much influence Pelagianism might have had on Gildas. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-4525 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.16922/jrhlc.11.1.1 |
