Gerald of Wales

List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Gerald of Wales: Interpretation and Innovation in Medieval Britain - Georgia Henley and A. Joseph McMullen Section 1: Appropriating the Past 2 Gerald of Wales and the Welsh Past - Huw Pryce 3 Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning - Ben Guy 4 Gerald of Wales, Walter Map and the Anglo-Saxon History of Lydbury North - Joshua Byron Smith 5 Gerald of Wales and the History of Llanthony Priory - Robert Bartlett 6 The Early Manuscripts of Gerald of Wales - Catherine Rooney 7 Giraldian Beavers: Revision and the Making of Meaning in Gerald’s Early Works - Michael Faletra 8 Style, Truth and Irony: Listening to the Voice of Gerald of Wales’s Writings - Simon Meecham-Jones Section 3: Gerald the Thinker: Religion and Worldview 9 Gerald of Wales’s Sense of Humour - Peter J. A. Jones 10 Fere tirannicus: Royal Tyranny and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in Gerald of Wales’s Vita Sancti Hugonis - Peter Raleigh 11 ‘A Priest Is Not a Free Person’: Condemning Clerical Sins and Upholding Higher Moral Standards in the Gemma ecclesiastica - Suzanne LaVere 12 Elements of Identity: Gerald, the Humours and National Characteristics - Owain Nash Section 4: Reception in England, Ireland and Wales 13 Gerald’s Circulation and Reception in Wales: The Case of Claddedigaeth Arthur - Georgia Henley 14 The Transmission of the Expugnatio Hibernica in Fifteenth-century Ireland - Caoimhe Whelan 15 Did the Tudors Read Giraldus? Gerald of Wales and Early Modern Polemical Historiography - Brendan Kane Afterword Bibliography Index