De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas' Britain.
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas' De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (ci...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 137 - 161 |
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