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George, Karen, Gildas’s De excidio Britonum and the early British church, Studies in Celtic History, 26, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009.

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Gildas’s De excidio Britonum and the early British church
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Woodbridge
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Boydell Press
Year
2009
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Gildas's De excidio Britonum is a rare 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 context. In this new study the author challenges the assumption that the British Church was isolated from its Continental counterpart by Germanic settlement in Britain and seeks to establish a theological context for the De excidio within the framework of doctrinal controversy in the early Continental Church. The vexed question of the place of Pelagianism in the early British Church is re-investigated and a case is put forward for a radical new interpretation of Gildas's own theological stance. In addition, this study presents a detailed investigation of the literary structure of the De excidio and Gildas's use of verbal patterns, and argues that his use of the Bible as a literary model is at least as significant as his well-documented use of the literary techniques of Classical Latin.
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Gildas De excidio Britonum
“Introduction”
[1] “The preface”
[2] “Gildas and the lamentations of Jeremiah”
[3] “The construction of the patterns in the DEB”
[4] “The Historia”
[5] “The kings”
[6] “Gildas and the British Church”
[7] “The DEB and the Vita Germani”
“Epilogue”
List of sources and bibliography
“Appendix: De excidio Britonum”
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Dennis Groenewegen
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