Three Wise MonkeysRUSI Podcast TALKING STRATEGY:
This time we plunge into the #MiddelAges with Professor Matthew Strickland of the #UniversityofGlasgow - to explore what the amazing Gallo-Norman Gerald of Wales told us about how Welsh and Irish waged war on the fringes of Europe.
Episode 9: Gerald of Wales: Medieval Adaptation to Terrain and Enemy
Professor Matthew Strickland joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss Gerald of Wales, royal clerk and chaplain to King Henry II of England in 1184. In times when the Norman rulers of the British Isles relied on clerics as civil servants, Gerald (c. 1146 – c. 1223), of mixed Welsh-Norman descent, furnished exceptional analytical surveys of Wales and Ireland.