- 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 | 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 - The Anglo-Saxons
Gildas, also known as St Gildas, was a 6th-century British monk and historian who is known for his writings on the history of Britain during the early medieval period
- Who Was Gildas? A Voice from Dark Age Britain - TheCollector
For several centuries, there has been a tradition that there were two men called Gildas living in the sixth century Many modern scholars reject this idea, but it still has some supporters Traditionally, the early Gildas is known as Gildas Albanicus, because he came from what is now Scotland
- Gildas, his person, his writings - Vortigern Studies
After Patrick, Gildas is the second British source for the fifth century, of which he shows us a rare, but extremely distorted picture (see Gildas in the Dark Ages) Gildas lived in the fifth, but more likely in the first half of the sixth century We have but a small clue as to who he really was
- The Life of Gildas - maryjones. us
GILDAS, born in the very fertile district of Arecluta, and descended from his father Caunus, a most noble and Catholic man, was desirous, from his very boyhood, to follow Christ with all the affection of his heart
- Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook
Gildas Bandonicus, a British [i e Celtic] monk, lived in the 6th century In the 540s - in the most aggressive language - he set out to denounce the wickedness of his times
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