tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2692633034072436530.post3329993062683268307..comments2023-05-22T20:46:29.113+01:00Comments on Clas Merdin: Tales from the Enchanted Island: Gildas and the SaxonsEdward Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11897445465538125504noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2692633034072436530.post-2104570459884413102014-05-24T13:40:07.540+01:002014-05-24T13:40:07.540+01:00Maximus is certainly an intriguing character, not ...Maximus is certainly an intriguing character, not least the affection held for him in Welsh tradition.<br /><br />Have you considered the possibility that Maximus was the superbus tyrannus mentioned by Gildas in his De Excidio?<br /><br />In explaining Gildas' unremitting hostility to Maximus, Halsall (Worlds of Arthur, OUP 2013, and also Appendix to Barbarians Migrations and the Roman West Edward Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11897445465538125504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2692633034072436530.post-80509494745335349142014-05-20T02:54:19.288+01:002014-05-20T02:54:19.288+01:00Flavius Clemens aka Magnus Maximus committed some ...Flavius Clemens aka Magnus Maximus committed some serious blunders, fighting Theodosius being his last, but he also made a painful decision of exceeding genius: he sacrificed Britain but saved western Europe. He did this by removing most of Britain's troops and establishing fortified garrisons in Armorica (specifically Brittany) and Galicia.<br />Magnus was so charismatic that after his zoetropohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11561232179829754977noreply@blogger.com