In order to further disentangle the reality and fiction of this view of culture versus barbarity and of reform versus wickedness, I shall analyse twelfth-century Irish vitae.
Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion
September 7, 2014 By
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in Gerald of Wales
May 3, 2013 By
This paper was given at the 2013 Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto.
Expectations of empire: some twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English views of what their kings could do
October 8, 2012 By
In this paper I shall try to see what the ways in which a number of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English authors interpreted the past might reveal about their assumptions about the reach of the king’s government.
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings
May 22, 2011 By
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings Steele, Helen Published Online (2006) Abstract On the 10th of November 1203, Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis attended a meeting at Westminster Abbey in London at which Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, announced the selection of Geoffrey de Henelawe as Bishop of the See of St David’s. Although five years […]
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500]
April 10, 2011 By
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] David, Sumithra J. PhD Thesis, University of St. Andrews, 4th March (2008) Abstract In this study the manuscript transmission, dissemination and reception of Gerald of Wales’ Topographia Hibernica (TH) and William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium […]
England against the Celtic fringe : a study in cultural stereotypes
February 21, 2009 By
The clash of cultures has often been portrayed historically as the struggle of ‘civilization’ with ‘barbarism’. Such a chararcterization of their relationship was immensely satisfying to advocates of the dominant life-style, who thereby assured themselves of their own superiority and of the desirability of the conqust or conversion of their rivals.
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