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A fact from Instruction for a Ruler appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 July2026(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in his translation of Gerald of Wales's De principis instructione, Robert Bartlett described Gerald as "one of the great auto-plagiarists of the Middle Ages"?
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Do we really need a separate article for one critical edition? This seems more likely to confuse readers as to what's what. Srnec (talk) 20:33, 28 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
That's what I meant by "Introduction". I don't see how the "Text and translation" is really edition specific. (As an aside, the article does not define "distinction".) Srnec (talk) 20:31, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
... that in his translation of Gerald of Wales's De principis instructione, Robert Bartlett described Gerald as "one of the great auto-plagiarists of the Middle Ages"?
Source: Giraldus (2018). Bartlett, Robert (ed.). Gerald of Wales: instruction for a ruler (De principis instructione). Oxford medieval texts. Translated by Bartlett, Robert (1st ed.). Oxford; New York, NY: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-873862-6.
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"Gerald is one of the great auto-plagiarists of the Middle Ages, and hence another important source for the De principis instructione is his own writings"
Min968 (talk) 17:12, 7 July 2026 (UTC)