Description
"List of Gerald's extant writings" p. [62]. Bibliography: p. 60-61.
About the Author
Betty Radice read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy’s The War with Hannibal she translated Livy’s Rome and Italy, Pliny’s Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and also wrote the introduction to Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes, all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs of My Life for the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny’s works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Who’s Who in the Ancient World. Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.
Table of Contents
Translated by Lewis Thorpe Introduction:
I. The Life of Gerald of Wales
Geneaological table: the family of Gerald of Wales
II. The Journey Through Wales
1. The purpose of the journey and its achievements
2. Gerald's role
3. The route followed
4. The three versions
5. "...cum notabilibus suis"
6. The editions
7. The earlier translation
8. This translation
III. The Description of Wales
1. The shape and subject-matter
2. The three versions
3. The changes made in the second and third versions
4. The editions
5. The earlier translation
6. This translation
IV. Gerald the Historian
V. Gerald the Artist
VI. Short Bibliography
VII. Acknowledgments
VIII. List of Gerald's Extant Writings
Maps:
1. Gerald's Journey Through Wales
2. Wales in 1188
THE JOURNEY THROUGH WALES
First Preface
Second Preface
List of Chapter-Headings: Book I; Book II
THE DESCRIPTION OF WALES
First Preface
Second Preface
List of Chapter-Headings: Book I; Book II
Appendix I: The additions made in Versions II and III of The Journey Through Wales
Appendix II: The additions made in Versions II and III of The Description of Wales
Appendix III: Gerald of Wales and King Arthur
Index