Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/23) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Noted for his vigorous Latin and anecdotal style, Giraldus gives a vivid portrait of medieval Britain he revived the ethnographic monograph, lapsed since antiquity and of...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/3) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Noted for his vigorous Latin and anecdotal style, Giraldus gives a vivid portrait of medieval Britain and the intrigues of the Angevin court. Volume 2, edited by historian J....

The Franciscan Roger Bacon (c.1214 92?) was one of the most significant intellectuals of the thirteenth century. His most important work was the Opus Majus of 1267 (also available in this series). The works included in this volume, edited by J. S. Brewer, had not previously been published, and only one volume of the unpublished works ever appeared, because of Brewer's other commitments. The Opus Minus was a precis of the larger work, written at the same time. The Opus Tertium, written the following year, was Bacon's attempt to cover topics which he felt had been omitted, or inadequately...

This two-volume work forms part of a series of scholarly editions, commissioned by the Master of the Rolls, of unpublished chronicles and other original documents relating to Early English history. The documents are reprinted in Latin or Middle English, and are summarised by the editors, whose invaluable prefaces places them in historical context and describe the location and condition of the original manuscripts. Volume 1 (1858) contains documents relating to the earliest establishment of the Franciscan Order. The treatise De adventu of Thomas of Eccleston (fl. c.1231 58), is the only...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/23) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Noted for his vigorous Latin and anecdotal style, Giraldus gives a vivid portrait of medieval Britain he revived the ethnographic monograph, lapsed since antiquity and of...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/3) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Volume 1, edited by historian J. S. Brewer (1809 79) and published in 1861, with an introduction in English to the Latin texts, consists of Giraldus' polemical-apologetic...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/23) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Volume 7, edited by clergyman and historian James F. Dimock (1810 76) and published in 1877, contains Giraldus' lives of Saint Remigius, the first Bishop of Lincoln, and his...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/23) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Volume 8, edited by archivist George F. Warner (1845 1936) and published in 1891, contains his 'Liber de principis instructione', a moral treatise including much invective...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/3) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Volume 3, edited by historian J. S. Brewer (1809 79) and published in 1863, consists of Latin texts with an editorial preface in English, continuing from Volume 1, Giraldus'...

Despite a frustrated ecclesiastical career his ongoing failure to secure the See of St David's embittered him Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales, Gerald de Barry, c.1146 1220/23) composed many remarkable literary works, initially while employed as a royal clerk for Henry II and, subsequently, in semi-retirement in Lincoln. Eight volumes of his works were compiled as part of the Rolls Series of British medieval material. Volume 4, edited by historian J. S. Brewer (1809 79) and published in 1873, contains two texts, one a moral, quasi-pastoral critique of the monastic orders, the other a life...