The History and Topography of Ireland (Penguin Classics)
by Gerald of Wales
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Author: Gerald of WalesIntroduction: John O'Meara
Translator: John O'Meara
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1983-03-31
ISBN: 0140444238
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Fascinating
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
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