02-03-2010, 12:37 PM
Unlikely that Gildas wrote a now-lost history. He wouldn't have seen the need--that's why his screed is so devoid of historical details. He was preaching against the apostasy and moral failings of his generation of Britons and assumed that his readers--most of whom would have been clerics like himself--knew all the details about recent (to them) events.
If he'd known his missive was going to be read for 1500 years, do you think he might have dressed it up a bit?
No, I don't either. That was just Gildas. :lol:
If he'd known his missive was going to be read for 1500 years, do you think he might have dressed it up a bit?
No, I don't either. That was just Gildas. :lol:
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
Ron Andrea
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