British Museum AD410 Conference

[Robert Vermaat]

I heard that Gildas received a beating - well, that's fashion I suppose, although it was time that historians came away from the views of David Dumville, who virtually raised Gildas on a pedestal.

I heard that the (in)famous 'letter to Honorius' was ditched. Finally! The 'evidence' of the Britons supposedly writing for help was based on such flimsy evidence - especially the supposed 'evidence' from Gildas in support of the ambiguous text of Zosimos - it's good that the pendulum has swung away from this.