01-31-2010, 12:28 AM
Quote:Thre is something about Gildas that is infuriating. I am sure that a lot of his stuff is useful but the agenda led stuff is so prolific you end up not believing any of it or of anything else. Compare that with Jordanes who also had an agenda but who is hugely readable and credible..and he makes his bias clear.Something??? hock: I think there is a whole lot about Gildas that is infuriating... :twisted: I mean, here we have almost an eyewitness to one of the most interesting yet most clouded periods that I can think of. And what does the guy do? He writes a SERMON! Not a history, it can be used very limited that way, but a SERMON... Infuriating.
Jordanes also has an agenda, but for a historian.. And credible? A lot isn't.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)