Giraldi Cambrensis Opera - Volume 7

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.11461220/23) 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 (181076) and published in 1877 contains Giraldus'' lives of Saint Remigius the first Bishop of Lincoln and his later successor Saint Hugh a contemporary of Giraldus himself. The Latin text in Giraldus'' vigorous and anecdotal style gives a vivid picture of the ecclesiastical world of medieval Britain and its historical background while the English editorial preface illuminates nineteenth-century interest in the period.