@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hjm7d.5, ISBN = {9780812245622}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hjm7d.5}, abstract = {The earliest ethnography of Europe emerged from its borders, particularly as they underwent expansion in the twelfth century. Representative texts of such “border ethnography” include Adam of Bremen’s account of Baltic peoples, and his continuator Helmold’s description of Slavic customs, as well as a proliferation of texts about Britain’s natives, the Irish, Welsh, and Scots, viewed by Anglo-Normans coming into contact with them along Britain’s Celtic periphery. Gerald of Wales stands as the most important of these ethnographic border writers of the Celtic periphery, and among the most important ethnographers of the medieval period.Gerald wrote his four Celtic works}, bookauthor = {Shirin A. Khanmohamadi}, booktitle = {In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages}, pages = {37--56}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, title = {Subjective Beginnings: Autoethnography and the Partial Gazes of Gerald of Wales}, year = {2014} }