Giraldi Cambrensis Opera - Volume 3

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.11461220/3) 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 (180979) and published in 1863 consists of Latin texts with an editorial preface in English continuing from Volume 1 Giraldus'' polemical-apologetic account of the St David''s affair and a life of the eponymous saint. Giraldus is noted for his vigorous Latin and anecdotal style and this volume gives a vivid portrait of medieval Britain and the power struggles of the Angevin court while also illuminating nineteenth-century interest in the period.