Gildas

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A male given name.

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Examples

Despite its name, the work attempted to reconstruct British history in general by drawing together the varying accounts of Gildas, Bede, Nennius, and various chroniclers. Source: Internet

For recent events the Chronicle, like his Ecclesiastical History, relied upon Gildas, upon a version of the Liber pontificalis current at least to the papacy of Pope Sergius I (687–701), and other sources. Source: Internet

For the early part of the work, up until the Gregorian mission, Goffart feels that Bede used Gildas 's De excidio. Source: Internet

Gildas calls the peace a "grievous divorce with the barbarians". Source: Internet

Gildas described how the Saxons were later slaughtered at the battle of Mons Badonicus 44 years before he wrote his history, and Britain reverted to Romano-British rule. Source: Internet

Gildas' Motives N. J. Higham wrote a book on Gildas and the literary tropes that he used. Source: Internet

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