Part 1 Gildas: Gildas's geographical perspective - some problems; Gildas's prose style and its origins; a note on Gildas's "Lanio fulve"; did Gildas read Orosius?; Gildas's reading - a survey; Rufinus, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gildas. Part 2 Texts and intertextuality: Arator's use of Caelius Sedulius - a re-examination; the "Hisperica Famina" and Caelius Sedulius; some further Vergilian borrowings in Breton hagiography of the Carolingian period; knowledge of Christian Latin poets and historians in early medieval Brittany; Bede and Virgil; imitation of the poems of Paulinus of Nola in early Anglo-Latin verse; imitation of the poems of Paulinus of Nola in early Anglo-Latin verse - a postscript; Aldhelm, Gildas, and Acircius; Alfred burned the cakes - the "Vita prima sancti Neoti, telesinus", and Juvenal.
