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Gildas

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Strathclyde, Britain

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Religious Polemic

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Gildas (Breton: Gweltaz; c. 500 – c. 570) - also known as Gildas the Wise or Gildas Sapiens - was a 6th-century British monk best known for his scathing religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain), which recounts the history of the Britons before and during the coming of the Saxons. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during the sub-Roman period, and was renowned for his Biblical knowledge and literary style.

Gildas was born in what is now Scotland on the banks of the River Clyde, the son of a royal family. In his later life, he emigrated to Brittany where he founded a monastery known as St. Gildas de Rhuys.

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	On the Ruin of Britain 3.63 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 540 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthurian Period Sources, Volume 7: Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and other Documents by Gildas, Michael Winterbottom (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 500 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ruin of Britain and Other Works 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Works of Gildas and Nennius by Gildas, Nennius, John Allen Giles (Translator) 3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1841 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Welsh Histories: Translated by J. A. Giles by Gildas, Nennius, John Allen Giles (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Ruin of Britain by Gildas (1-May-2009) Paperback really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gildas De excidio Britanniae 1838 [Leather Bound] really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Welsh Histories by Gildas, Nennius it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Irish Glosses: A Mediaeval Tract On Latin Declension, With Examples Explained In Irish. To Which Are Added The Lorica Of Gildas, With The Gloss ... Selection Of Glosses From The Book Of Armagh by Gildas (Creator), Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians: thus two modes of death await us, we are either slain or drowned.”
― Gildas, Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English

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“teats which have not given suck;”
― Gildas, Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English

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