Descriptio Cambriae

Description of Wales

Author

Gerald of Wales

Language

Medieval Latin

Year

1193/1194

Country

England

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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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.