The Description of Wales
by Giraldus, Cambrensis
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Title:
The Description of Wales
Note:
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptio_Cambriae
Credits:
Transcribed from the 1912 J. M. Dent edition by David Price
Summary:
"The Description of Wales" by Giraldus Cambrensis is a geographical and ethnographic treatise written in 1193 or 1194. This two-part work examines the Welsh people through contrasting lenses: their virtues and their faults. Gerald, a churchman of mixed Norman-Welsh...