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Gildas: The Last Romano-Briton

Anglo-Saxon England

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Exploring Gildas' Life and Writing Style

Exploring Gildas' historical ambiguity, moralistic writing style, and use of rhetorical techniques to provoke repentance in the reader through a cyclical narrative of defeat, resurgence, and sinfulness in British history.

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