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Gildas and the Mystery Cloud of 536-7

2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 61; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/jts/flp174

1477-4607

David Woods,

Classical Antiquity Studies

The De Excidio Britonum by Gildas is conventionally dated to the second quarter of the sixth century. An apparent allusion at DEB 93.3 to the mysterious cloud which obscured the sun and moon for a year or more in Europe in 536–7 suggests that he probably wrote in 536, while the occurrence of such a phenomenon may well explain what finally drove him to publish such a fierce call to repentance.