Gildas

A 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons (Wikipedia).

6th-century British monk, writer and saint

Born	516?
Died	570?

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De excidio britanniae: Décadence de la Bretagne

by Gildas First published in 1838 — 4 editions

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Gildas De excidio Britanniae: Ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recensuit Josephus Stevenson.

by Gildas First published in 1838 — 3 editions
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On the Ruin of Britain (Dodo Press)

by Gildas First published in 2007 — 2 editions

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Gildae De excidio Britanniae, fragmenta, liber de paenitentia, accedit et Lorica Gildae: The ruin of Britain, Fragments from lost letters, The penitential, together with The Lorica of Gildas. Edited by Hugh Williams.

by Gildas First published in 1899 — 2 editions
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Gildae De excidio Britanniae: fragmenta, Liber de paenitenia, accedit et Lorica Gildae = Gildas' The ruin of Britain : fragments from lost letters, The penitential, together with The Lorica of Gildas

by Gildas First published in 1899 — 2 editions

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The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author: who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546, and who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisdom, acquired the name of Sapiens ; faithfully tr. out of the originall Latine

by Gildas First published in 1638 — 2 editions

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Gildas De excidio Britannaæ.

by Gildas First published in 1838 — 1 edition

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Gildas De excidio Britanniæ.

by Gildas First published in 1838 — 1 edition
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The works of Gildas and nennius

by Gildas First published in 1841 — 1 edition
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Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniæ, quam Angliam nunc uocant: author uetustus a multis diu desyderatus, & nuper in gratiam D. Cuthberti Tonstalli, Londinen[sis] Episcopi formulis excusus. In hoc authore, preter multiplicem hic illic historiaru[m] interpositionem, uidere licet grauissimas illius temporis regu[m], pri[n]cipu[m], ducu[m], episcoporum ... &c. correptio[n]es ...

by Gildas First published in 1525 — 1 edition

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Gildæ, cui cognomentum est sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniæ, ac flebili castigatione in reges, principes, & sacerdotes epistola: vetustissimorum exemplarioru[m] auxilio non solum a me[n]dis plurimis vindicata, sed etiam accessione eoru[m], quæ in prima editione a Polydoro Vergilio refecta erant, multipliciter aucta.

by Gildas First published in 1568 — 1 edition

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Gildæ, cui cognomentum est sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniæ: ac flebili castigatione in reges, principes, & sacerdotes epistola, vetustissimorum exemplarioru[m] auxilio non solum a me[n]dis plurimis vindicata, sed etiam accessione eoru[m], quæ in prima editione a Polydoro Vergilio refecta erant, multipliciter aucta.

by Gildas First published in 1567 — 1 edition

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Epistle.

by Gildas First published in 1638 — 1 edition

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M. Acci Plauti Sarsinatis Comoediae XX superstites

by Titus Maccius Plautus, Johann Philipp Pareus, and Gildas First published in 1610 — 1 edition

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Rervm britannicarvm, id est Angliæ, Scotiæ, vicinarvmqve insvlarvm ac regionvm: scriptores vetvstiores ac præcipui ...

by Hieronymus Commelinus, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asap..., Ludovico Pontico Virunio, Gildas, Saint Bede the Venerable, William of Newburgh, Jean Froissart, and Jérôme Commelin First published in 1587 — 1 edition

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The ruin of Britain, and other works

by Gildas First published in 1978 — 1 edition

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Gildas De Excidio Brittaniae

by Gildas First published in 1986 — 1 edition

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Gildae Sapientis De excidio.

by Gildas First published in 1898 — 1 edition

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Gildae De excidio Britanniae: fragmenta, Liber de paenitentia, accedit et Lorica Gildae = Gildas' The ruin of Britain , fragments from lost letters, The penitential, together with the Lorica of Gildas

by Gildas First published in 1901 — 1 edition

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Gildae De excidio Britanniae: fragmenta, Liber de paenitentia, accedit et Lorica Gildae = Gildas' The ruin of Britain , fragments from lost letters, The penitential, together with the Lorica of Gildas

by Gildas First published in 1899 — 1 edition

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6th-century British monk, writer and saint

Born	516?
Died	570?

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OLID: OL1628262A
ISNI: 0000000449269158
Library of Congress Names: n85112337
Project Gutenberg: 759
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): BVEV041070
VIAF: 203402485
Wikidata: Q352995
Inventaire.io: wd:Q352995

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