- Gildas - Wikipedia
He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany, where he founded a monastery known as Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys
- Gildas
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- Gildas | Early Medieval, Welsh Monk, Historian | Britannica
Gildas (died 570?) was a British historian of the 6th century A monk, he founded a monastery in Brittany known after him as St Gildas de Rhuys
- Gildas - World History Encyclopedia
Gildas (c 500-570 CE) was a Romano-British monk, known primarily for a work entitled De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, translated as On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain Gildas' work is a polemical sermon recounting British history while also rebuking the British kings and clergy of his own lifetime
- Who Was Gildas? A Voice from Dark Age Britain - TheCollector
Gildas is the only sixth-century figure from Britain whose writings have survived What else do we know about him?
- GILDAS, a monk of the 6th cent | Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Gildas was not a historian and his De Excidio Britanniae is certainly not history, important though it be to historians, but a letter or epistle to convince the civil and ecclesiastical heads among the Welsh people of sin
- Gildas: From The Ruin of Britain – An Open Companion to Early . . .
“Grumpy Gildas,” as he came to be known, was a 6th-century British monk best known for the religious polemic you will read below, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae
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