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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
Joined August 2014

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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jan 2017

    Gerald of Wales on a demon-assisted human lie detector living in the neighbourhood of 12thC Caerleon... https://www.academia.edu/11766741/THE_BRITISH_PAST_AND_THE_WELSH_FUTURE_GERALD_OF_WALES_GEOFFREY_OF_MONMOUTH_AND_ARTHUR_OF_BRITAIN_Celtica_23_1999_23-75 …pic.twitter.com/BsVQ8LDgP3

    TEXT: When he was harassed beyond endurance by these unclean spirits, St John's Gospel was placed on his lap, & then they all vanished immediately, flying away like so many birds. If the Gospel were afterwards removed and the History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth put there in its place, just to see what would happen, the demons would alight all over his body, and on the book, too...
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    • Steffen Hope João [ʒuˈɐ̃w] Former Taunton Mayor lumpy Madeley The Crafty Miss and yes i shall love Sjoerd Levelt Richard Slipper  (47J)
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Fwiw, Bede's reputation v high in Wales e.g. ‘the books of Bede tell no lies’, Kadeir Kerrituen line 37, & Triad 49: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K2euBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA286&pg=PA135#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/aUQqzVyWmU

        TEXT: Three People who received the Wisdom of Adam: Cato the Old, and Bede, and Sibli the Wise. They were, all three, as wise as Adam himself.
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      3. Mark Brierley‏ @MarkBrierley1 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        and yet he hated the Welsh for Augustine's Oak! Treated them like pagans. He hides their Xianity and presence in A-S lands

        2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @MarkBrierley1

        Fascinating, isn't it!?

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      5. Mark Brierley‏ @MarkBrierley1 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        absolutely

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Wm of Newburgh also had low opinion of Geoffrey of Monmouth, suggesting he wrote ridiculous things 'because of his love of unbridled lying'.

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      2. Sjoerd Levelt‏ @SLevelt 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        my students loved that passage (and so do we all)

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @SLevelt

        I can imagine! Wonderful bit of academic sniping by Gerald...!

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      2. Hookland‏ @HooklandGuide 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The best bit of mediaeval academic sniping agin Geoffrey of Monmouth I've ever seen. Glorious.

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @HooklandGuide

        Isn't it just! :)

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      4. Hookland‏ @HooklandGuide 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A fiction to dismiss fiction. Really rather glorious.

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      1. Dave Neville‏ @theduelistdave 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @SLevelt

        Never let it be said that Giraldus didn't fully commit when he despised someone, be they the Irish or poor Geoffrey!

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      1. Andreas Loewe‏ @melbournedean 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        What a verdict on the veracity or otherwise of the History of the Kings of England...

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      1. Geoffrey Tobin‏ @grdtobin 26 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @HopeSteffen Poor Geoffrey copped it from all the sceptics. But the true tale was impolitic, and would become more so.

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      1. Dr Matthew Kilburn‏ @Matthew_Kilburn 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        One of my favourite anecdotes.

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      1. Philip Owen  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 EFTA-EEA is enough.‏ @PCOwen_a 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Oh yes!

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      1. Michael caldwell‏ @Absurdum14 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        I love that it's mostly a takedown of a rival academic...

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      1. Matthew Johnson‏ @IrregularVerbal 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Ooh, sick burn on Geoffrey of Monmouth!

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      1. Eerappel‏ @eerappel 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Very helpful ability! We have a need for that in the present times...

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      1. Dr Dianne Tillotson aka Hipster Bookfairy‏ @HipBookfairy 23 Jan 2017
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Heh! We could use him right now, Geoffrey or no Geoffrey.

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