A study of a contemporary witness to the transformation of
post-Roman Britain into Anglo-Saxon England. Gildas's De excidio
Britonum is a rare surviving contemporary source for the period
which saw the beginning of the transformation of post-Roman Britain
into Anglo-Saxon England. However, although the De excidio has
received much scholarly attention over the last forty years, the
value of the text as a primary source for this fascinating if
obscure period of British history has been limited by our lack of
knowledge concerning its historical and cultural context. In this
new study the author challenges the assumption that the British
Church was isolated from its Continental counterpart by Germanic
settlement in Britain and seeks to establish a theological context
for the De excidio within the framework of doctrinal controversy in
the early Continental Church. The vexed question of the place of
Pelagianism in the early British Church is re-investigated and a
case is put forward for a radical new interpretation of Gildas's
own theological stance. In addition, this study presents a detailed
investigation of the literary structure of the De excidio and
Gildas's use of verbal patterns, and argues that his use ofthe
Bible as a literary model is at least as significant as his
well-documented use of the literary techniques of Classical Latin.
Dr KAREN GEORGE is currently a tutor at the Cambridge Institute of
Continuing Education.
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