De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (Latin: On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, sometimes just On the Ruin of Britain) is a work written in Latin by the...
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Gildas (section De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae)
British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and during...
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De Excidio ("Concerning the Destruction") is a Latin title that may refer to: De excidio et conquestu Britanniae ("On the Ruin & Conquest of Britain")...
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lists. Because of this we know that he relied heavily on De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae by Gildas, a sixth-century cleric, for his early dates. Historians...
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Historia regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called De gestis Britonum (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a pseudohistorical...
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earliest mention of the Battle of Badon appears in Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain), written in the early...
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early 6th century. He was castigated for various sins by Gildas in De Excidio Britanniae. The Welsh form Cynlas Goch is attested in several genealogies of...
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Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 451. ABC-CLIO (Sta. Barbara), 2006. De Excidio Britanniae, §3. (in Latin) Cited in the "Civitas" entry of Celtic Culture....
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February 2019. Kerlouégan, François (1987). Le De Excidio Britanniae de Gildas. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. p. 579. Wickham, Chris (2009). The...
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sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo-Saxon...
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associated with Arthurian legend Historia Regum Britanniae draws upon Gildas' De Excidio Britanniae, the Historia Brittonum, and the Annales Cambriae...
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general unrest, which was the inspiration behind Gildas's book De Excidio Britanniae (The Ruin of Britain). The next major campaign against the Britons...
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sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo-Saxon...
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and chroniclers of the period: Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio Britanniae) (died 570) Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia...
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Millet (1992), p. 102f, lists 22 "public towns"; Gildas, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae [On the ruin and conquest of Britain] (in Latin), 3.2 lists...
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Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 451. ABC-CLIO (Sta. Barbara), 2006. De Excidio Britanniae, § 3. (in Latin) Cited in the "Civitas" entry of Celtic Culture...
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Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 451. ABC-CLIO (Sta. Barbara), 2006. De Excidio Britanniae, §3. (in Latin) Cited in the "Civitas" entry of Celtic Culture....
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ironic considering that he may have appeared in Gildas the Wise's De Excidio Britanniae (of which he was a contemporary) as "Aurelius Caninus" (i.e.: the...
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marginal references identify the sources of information from Gildas (De Excidio Britanniae), Bede, Widukind of Corvey and many others, presenting an erudite...
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for a more complete family tree. Gildas (1899), Gildae De excidio Britanniae, fragmenta, liber de paenitentia, accedit et Lorica Gildae, London: Published...
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medieval Ireland is entirely without foundation. Gildas. De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. 6th century. (in Latin) Translated by Thomas Habington. The...
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List of languages by first written account (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
(1987). Le De Excidio Britanniae de Gildas. Les destinées de la culture latine dans l'île de Bretagne au VIe siècle (in French). Publications de la Sorbonne...
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suggests that, with the exception of a continuation of Gildas' De excidio Britanniae dating to the 14th century, its material shares the same origin...
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Geoffrey of Monmouth (redirect from Geoffrey de Monmouth)
History of the English People, and Gildas's 6th-century polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, expanded with material from bardic oral tradition and genealogical...
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Gildas discusses Aurelius Conanus in Chapter 30 of his work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, in a section in which he reproves five kings for their various...
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history of the Britons and that it was largely based on Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae written some three centuries before. Other sources included...
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the kings condemned by Gildas in his 6th century polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. This probably signifies the sub-Roman petty kingdom of Dyfed...
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suggests that, with the exception of a continuation of Gildas' De excidio Britanniae dating to the 14th century, share the same origin. The same kind...
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Tabula in historiis Britonum Gildas, De excidio Britanniae Anonymous, Encomium Emmae Reginae, which is called Tractatus de gestis regis Chnutonis in the explicit...
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today is the scathing account of his behavior recorded in De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae by Gildas, who considered Maelgwn a usurper and reprobate...
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