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
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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
and yet he hated the Welsh for Augustine's Oak! Treated them like pagans. He hides their Xianity and presence in A-S lands
Fascinating, isn't it!?
absolutely
Wm of Newburgh also had low opinion of Geoffrey of Monmouth, suggesting he wrote ridiculous things 'because of his love of unbridled lying'.
my students loved that passage (and so do we all)
I can imagine! Wonderful bit of academic sniping by Gerald...!
The best bit of mediaeval academic sniping agin Geoffrey of Monmouth I've ever seen. Glorious.
Isn't it just! :)
A fiction to dismiss fiction. Really rather glorious.
Never let it be said that Giraldus didn't fully commit when he despised someone, be they the Irish or poor Geoffrey!
What a verdict on the veracity or otherwise of the History of the Kings of England...
@HopeSteffen Poor Geoffrey copped it from all the sceptics. But the true tale was impolitic, and would become more so.
One of my favourite anecdotes.
I love that it's mostly a takedown of a rival academic...
Ooh, sick burn on Geoffrey of Monmouth!
Very helpful ability! We have a need for that in the present times...
Heh! We could use him right now, Geoffrey or no Geoffrey.
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