Originary Impulses

Chronicle, Folklore, Archeology

Week Two

Readings

• Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum - from Book I, Chapter 16 (c.731)
• Nennius, Historia Brittonum - from Chapter 56 (c.800)
• Gildas, De Excido et Conquestu Britanniae - from Chapter 25 (c.540)
• Annales Cambriae - (c.950)
• William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum - from Books I & III (c.1125)
• Giraldus Cambrensis, De Principis Instructione (c.1195)
• Ralph Higden, Polychronicon (c.1327)
• Geoffrey Ashe, "The Origins of the Arthurian Legend" (c.1995)

Multimedia

Images

• The Glastonbury Cross
• The Glastonbury Grave
• The Sign Marking the Grave
• Glastonbury Tor
• The Town of Glastonbury

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