Words, Meanings, and Readings: Reconstructing the Use of Gildas's <i>De excidio Britanniae</i> at the Canterbury School
Brian Christopher Hardison
This article investigates the manner in which Gildas’s De excidio Britanniae was being read at Canterbury school of Theodore and Hadrian seventh century. Beginning with a discussion historical milieu school, textual history excidio, evidence text’s presence this center, examines glossae collectae preserved Leiden Glossary that have been identified as Gildasian an effort to gain insight into intellectual cultural concerns Anglo-Saxon scholars working there. study argues text likely used within pedagogical context support reform agenda undertaken by appear be result multiple independent systematic readings text.
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