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The English conquest : Gildas and Britain in the fifth century

Title
The English conquest : Gildas and Britain in the fifth century / N.J. Higham.
Author
Higham, N. J.
Publication
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description
viii, 220 pages : maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Gildas, 516?-570?
  • Anglo-Saxons > Historiography
  • Britons > Historiography
  • Great Britain > Historiography. > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
  • Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The rationale of Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae -- 2. Gildas and the Saxons -- 3. Gildas and Jeremiah -- 4. The locality of the De Excidio Britanniae -- 5. The chronology of the De Excidio Britanniae -- 6. Gildas and his contemporaries -- 7. Postscript: Gildas and the 'Age of Arthur'.
ISBN
  • 0719040795
  • 0719040809 (paperback)
LCCN
93045583
OCLC
  • 29520680
  • ocm29520680
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries