Author: Gerald Of Wales
Creator: John O'meara
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 544663

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.5

ISBN: 0140444238
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.503
EAN: 9780140444230
ASIN: 0140444238

Publication Date: March 31, 1983
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Fascinating February 23, 2001
22 out of 24 found this review helpful

Have you ever seen a medieval map? People had only the vaguest idea of the world they lived in - and when men such as Gerald of Wales set out to gather information they very often had to rely on what local people told them (as did Herodotus over 1000 years earlier). So of course Gerald's History and Topography of Ireland is going to be riddled with factual errors - if you want to find out about the history and geography of Ireland you should look at modern maps, produced by satellites, and modern histories, written by scholars with hundreds of thousands of documents at their fingertips. Books written in the eleventh century tell you what people thought THEN, in the eleventh century, and are as such fascinating journeys into the early medieval mindset. Myths mingle with facts as the locals tell Gerald about things that matter to them, and really brings home history - in a way that reading of battles and kings doesn't. It tells you about daily lives and what people thought - we are really quite amazingly lucky that books such as these have survived a thousand years to tell us what life was like then.

3 out of 5 stars

Interesting but flawed medieval account of Ireland November 24, 1998
9 out of 33 found this review helpful

I found the chapters relating ot the topography of Ireland to be seriously flawed and containing inaccurate descriptions of the rivers and areas of Ireland. However it does give a very good idea of the mindset of the early Norman invaders in their conquest of Ireland and offers some to moder day readers humourous rhetorical accounts of native Irish tribal behaviour.

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