![]() MEMBER:Īmerican Educational Research Association, Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, International Society of the Learning Sciences. Presenter and speaker at symposia, meetings, and conferences. General Computer Corporation, project manager and video game designer, 1982-84 Kenan Systems Corporation (information technology management company), Cambridge, MA, principal manager, 1984-90, consultant, 1991-93 Culpeper Consulting Group, senior consultant, 1994-95. Washington University, adjunct associate professor, department of psychology, 1997-, Olin School of Business, 2007. Louis, MO, assistant professor, 1996-2003, associate professor of education, business, and psychology, 2003. ![]() University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, lecturer, 1993-95 University of California, Santa Cruz, lecturer, 1996 Washington University at St. Writer, lecturer, consultant, public speaker, researcher, musician, psychologist, video game designer, and educator. Louis, 1 Brookings Dr., Campus Box 1183, St. Office-Department of Education, Washington University at St. Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., 1982 University of Chicago, M.A., 1992, Ph.D., 1994. ![]() Keith Sawyer, Robert Keith Sawyer) PERSONAL:īorn in 1960. The size of the font in this edition is criminally small.Īpart from these three reservations the book is an excellent source of information, and Bartlett writes a clear precise prose that is enjoyable to read.Sawyer, Keith 1960- (R. Perhaps there's uncertainty about who the target audience is reflected in the publication as an Appendix of a Latin text of a poem by Gerald, again with no translation. The middle section has chunks of Latin which are not translated, then the book goes back to translating, which seems another odd editorial decision. His writings about Ireland and Wales are also, in Barlett's view, a reinvention of ethnographical writing.Īlthough I think this book is worth its five stars, I think the absence of a short chronological overview of Gerald's life is a flaw. While Gerald is an important witness to historical events, making the first part of this book the most 'historical', his curiosity and love of a good story raise broader questions about how an intelligent man in the twelfth century understood his world. If you know anything about Gerald this is probably compulsory reading, if you don't, and aren't interested in one of the most fascinating characters of the period, then it provides an insight into the twelfth century in any number of ways. While his writing remains readable, as Bartlett points out, Gerald wasn't in the front rank of thinkers in that extraordinary century. ![]() The Book is divided into three sections:Politics and Nationality, The Natural and Unnatural, and Ethnography.Īs a 'biographical study rather than a biography', this is an excellent discussion of Gerald's writing and thought. Bartlett's subject is one of the most intriguing figures of the 12th century and Gerald's writing on Ireland and Wales still makes entertaining reading if you can sidestep aspects of Gerald's character that can be off putting. This is an entertaining and thought provoking book. He analyses Gerald's clear voice in the time in which he lives, and portrays him as a vivid example of the medieval world. In this fascinating study of Gerald's attitudes and intellectual outlook, Robert Bartlett discusses the delicate political path Gerald had to tread between Norman conquerors, native Celtic society and the English Crown. We know more about Gerald than about any other inhabitant of early medieval Wales. He was also a naturalist, gossip and indefatigable traveller, but above all, a most prolific writer and a tireless self-publicist. Descended from Norman Marcher barons and Welsh princes, Gerald was by turns scholar, churchman and reformer, courtier, diplomat and would-be crusader Marcher propagandist, agent of English kings, champion of the Welsh church, hunted outlaw and cathedral theologian. Gerald of Wales, Giraldis Cambrensis, Gerald the Welshman, Gerald the Marcher - his many names reflect the long and multi-faceted career of one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages. ![]()
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