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# The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales (Penguin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Of variable readability, but excellent source material
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2010*

This is a fascinating little book which the translator has done an excellent job of putting in general context with other works, not only in the introduction and appendices but also in the extensive footnotes tracing quotations.  Gerald was quite clearly a fan of Roman literature (Virgil, Lucan, Horace, etc) and he clearly saw the Welsh, as did Geoffrey of Monmouth, as a part of some ancient Trojan extension of culture.This book contains two of Gerald's writings.  The first is The Journey Through Wales, which I found very easy to read, and which basically recounts a trip around Wales preaching and performing Mass.  Each area is described in substantial detail and often historical episodes or accounts of relics of saints are interspersed in the text.  Some of these accounts have clear pagan origins meaning that students of Celtic prehistory as well as of the Middle Ages may find much material in here to ponder.  Of course separating Catholic from Pagan elements is not very easy, but I have no doubt it could be done.  At any rate that synthesis is what made Medieval Wales into what it was.The second part is The Description of Wales, which describes the geography and people of that country.  The first part of that book describes all that is noble.  The second part describes all that is not.  It ends with a prediction of how the English will probably eventually conquer Wales, and what can be done to keep up a resistance.  I found this book to be quite a bit drier than The Journey Through Wales, but it could be of interest to many people nonetheless.Despite the dry portions of the second work, I decided to give this work 5 stars because the first work brings Wales to life so vividly and provides so much material for consideration that this book really should be on the top of the reading list for anyone interested in Wales and/or the middle ages.  Highly recommended.

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    Conversational history
  

*by A***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2017*

This book will appeal most to history buffs, especially Welsh ones or medievalists.  Gerald of Wales was a 12th century historian, a time when the scientific method was not well-established, so some of his recounting is of legends as "history."  I especially liked his reporting on the daily life of the people, such as their propensity to sing chorally, each person claiming his own part but in harmony with others---a style not at all typical in the European churches and monasteries of the time, but still in place today in Wales.  "When they come together to make music, the Welsh sing their traditional songs, not in unison, as is done elsewhere, but in parts, in many modes and modulations. . . . you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers, all joining together in the end to produce a single organic harmony and melody in the soft sweetness of B-flat." Here is a quote to warm the heart of any Welshman:  "The Welsh are very sharp and intelligent. . . . They are quicker-witted and more shrewd than any other Western people."  Gerald was reporting at a time when Llywelyn the Great was building his power, so there is much reporting of the struggles amongst the various tribe leaders.  Gerald's style is conversational, with the text edition in modern English for easy reading.

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    Essential!
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2022*

Researchers and historians need this book.  Great seller, two thumbs up!  :)

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