Gildas 516?-570?

Overview

Works:	126 works in 248 publications in 8 languages and 4,513 library holdings
Roles:	Honoree
Classifications:	da150, 942.01

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Publications about Gildas

Publications by Gildas

Publications by Gildas, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Gildas

From magic to science; essays on the scientific twilight by Charles Joseph Singer ( Book )
Gildas : new approaches ( Book )
Two lives of Gildas ( Book )
Le De excidio Britanniae de Gildas : les destinées de la culture latine dans l'île de Bretagne au VIe siècle by François Kerlouégan ( Book )
Gildas de Rhuys, moine celtique by Yvon Mauffret ( Book )

Le Prime fonti letterarie dei popoli d'Inghilterra: Gildas e la Historia Brittonum by Ignazio Cazzaniga ( Book )
Nennius und Gildas by Albert Schulz ( Book )
Where was Govan in the early Middle Ages by Alex Woolf ( Book )
St. Gildas of Ruys and the Irish regal chronology of the sixth century by Alfred Anscombe ( Book )
Saint Gildas de Ruis et la société bretonne au VIe siècle (493-570) by Joseph Paul Emile Marie Fonssagrives ( Book )
Milton's Annotated copy of Gildas by Joseph Milton French ( Book )
Gildae De excidio Britanniae ; Fragmenta ; Liber de paenitenia : accedit et Lorica Gildae = Gildas, the ruin of Britain ; Fragments from lost letters ; The penitential : together with the lorica of Gildas by Gildas ( Book )
Saint-Gildas de la Bretagne au Berry : l'épopée des moines by Gilles Guillemain ( Book )
The Lorica of Gildas the Briton (? 547). A magico-medical text containing an anatomical vocabulary by Charles Joseph Singer ( Book )
O lygad y ffynnon : cyfieithiadau o weithiau haneswyr boreuaf Cymru, sef Cesar, Tacitus, Gildas, Nennius, Asser ( Book )
Britannicarum gentium historiæ antiquæ scriptores tres: : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis by Charles Bertram ( Book )
Saint Gildas de Ruis et la société bretonne au VIe siècle (493-570) by Joseph Fonssagrives ( Book )
Ethnic extermination or cultural assimilation? : problems in the character of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Wessex, A.D. 350-600 by Patrick Amory ( Book )
Die Lorica des Gildas by Günther Leonhardi ( Book )
St. Gildas of Ruys and the Irish regal chronology of the sixth century by Alfred Anscombe ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Gildas

On the ruin of Britain by Gildas ( Book )
in English and held by 751 libraries worldwide

The ruin of Britain, and other works by Gildas ( Book )
68 editions published between 1525 and 2006 in 6 languages and held by 643 libraries worldwide

Six old English chronicles ( Book )
6 editions published between 1848 and 1968 in English and held by 238 libraries worldwide

A description of the state of Great Brittain written eleven hundred yeares since by Gildas ( Book )
7 editions published between 1638 and 1652 in English and Undetermined and held by 117 libraries worldwide

Six old English chronicles, of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals. Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British history. Gildas. Nennius. and Richard of Cirencester ( Book )
9 editions published between 1848 and 1896 in English and held by 97 libraries worldwide

Six old English chronicles : of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals ( Book )
8 editions published between 1848 and 1891 in English and held by 82 libraries worldwide

The works of Gildas and Nennius by Gildas ( Book )
4 editions published in 1841 in English and held by 63 libraries worldwide

Irish glosses. A mediaeval tract on Latin declension, with examples explained in Irish. To which are added the Lorica of Gildas, with the gloss thereon, and a selection of glosses from the Book of Armagh by Whitley Stokes ( Book )
3 editions published in 1860 in English and held by 59 libraries worldwide

The chronicle of the kings of Britain by Geoffrey ( Book )
4 editions published between 1811 and 2000 in English and held by 47 libraries worldwide

The healing spectrum : further Gildas communications by Ruth White ( Book )
1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide

Rervm Britannicarvm, Id Est Angliae, Scotiae, Vicinarvmqve Insvlarvm Ac Regionvm: Scriptores Vetvstiores Ac Praecipvi ( Book )
3 editions published in 1587 in Latin and held by 36 libraries worldwide

Opus nouum. Gildas Britannus monachus cui sapientis cognome[n]tu[m] est inditum, de calamitate excidio, & conquestu Britanniæ, quam Angliam nunc uocant by Gildas ( Book )
1 edition published in 1525 in Latin and held by 21 libraries worldwide

The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author, who flourished in the yeere of Our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie and wisedome, acquired the name of Sapiens by Gildas ( Book )
2 editions published in 1638 in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide

Gildas Le Sage : Vies et oeuvres by Gildas ( Book )
1 edition published in 1997 in French and held by 18 libraries worldwide

Gildae Sapientis De excidio et conqvestv Britanniae ac flebili castigatione in reges principes et sacerdotes. Accedvnt: I. Epistvlarvm Gildae deperditarvm fragmenta. II. Gildae Liber de paenitentia. III. Vita Gildae avctore Monacho rviensi. IV. Vita Gildae avctore Caradoco Lancarbanensi by Gildas ( Book )
2 editions published in 1898 in Latin and held by 15 libraries worldwide

Gildae, cvi cognomentum est sapientis. De excidio & conquestu Britanniae, ac flebili castigatione in reges, principes, & sacerdotes epistola, vetustissimorum exemplariorū auxilio non solum a mēdis plurimis vindicata, sed etiam accessione corū, quae in prima editione a Polydoro Vergilio refecta erant, multipliciter aucta by Gildas ( Book )
2 editions published in 1568 in Latin and held by 11 libraries worldwide

Nennius et Gildas by Nennius ( Book )
1 edition published in 1844 in Undetermined and held by 11 libraries worldwide

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 by Gildas ( Book )
1 edition published in 1899 in Latin and held by 9 libraries worldwide

De excidio Britanniæ by Gildas Sapiens ( Book )
1 edition published in 1964 in German and held by 8 libraries worldwide

Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris, viri patricii, consularis, et vivariensis abbatis opera omnia 1. Praecedunt Vigilii papae, Gildae Sapientis et Pelagii papae scripta universa ( Book )
3 editions published between 1848 and 1979 in Latin and held by 8 libraries worldwide

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Related Identities

Giles, J. A. (John Allen) 1808-1884 Editor
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph 1100?-1154
Nennius fl. 796
Ethelwerd d. 998?
Asser, John d. 909
Bertram, Charles 1723-1765
Williams, Hugh 1843-1911 Editor
Gunn, William 1750-1841 Translator
Stevenson, Joseph 1806-1895 Editor
Joscelyn, John 1529-1603 Editor

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Alfred,--King of England,--849-899‍ Anglo-Saxons‍ Antiquities‍ Biography‍ Britons‍ Christianity‍ Christian saints‍ Chronology‍ Church history‍ Constantine--I,--Emperor of Rome,--d. 337‍ Criticism, interpretation, etc.‍ Early works‍ England‍ Ethics‍ France Germany--Berlin Gildas,--516?-570?‍ Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.‍ Great Britain Hildegard,--Saint,--1098-1179‍ Historiography‍ History‍ Hundred Years' War (1339-1453)‍ Intellectual life‍ Ireland Irish language‍ Juvenile works‍ Kings and rulers--Conduct of life‍ Language and languages‍ Legends‍ Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae (Gildas)‍ Medicine‍ Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric‍ Medicine, Medieval‍ Middle East--Troy (Extinct city)‍ Milton, John,--1608-1674‍ Monasticism and religious orders‍ Monks‍ Nennius,--fl. 796‍ Penance‍ Religious thought‍ Saints‍ Science‍ Science, Medieval‍ Scotland Scotland--Glasgow--Govan Sources‍ Spiritual healing and spiritualism‍ Theology‍ Wales

Alternative Names

Gildas, 6th cent.

Gildas, Badonicus

Gildas, de Rhuys

Gildas, der Weise

Gildas, le Sage

Gildas, saint

Gildas, sanctus

Sapiens, Gildas

Languages

English (108)
Latin (94)
Undetermined (30)
French (16)
German (4)
Welsh (4)
Multiple languages (2)
Italian (1)

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