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Descriptio Cambriae.
medieval treatise on Wales and its people written by Gerald of Wales
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About Descriptio Cambriae
The Descriptio Cambriae or Descriptio Kambriae is a geographical and ethnographic treatise on Wales and its people dating from 1193 or 1194. The Descriptio’s author Gerald of Wales was a prominent churchman of Welsh birth and mixed Norman-Welsh ancestry. It is divided into two books, the first concentrating on the virtues of the Welsh people, and the second on their faults.
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