Principal Works
Topographia Hibernica [The Irish Topography] (travel essay) c. 1188
Expugnatio Hibernica [The Conquest of Ireland] (history) c. 1188
Itinerarium Kambriae [Itinerary through Wales] (travel essay) c. 1191
Descriptio Kambriae [Description of Wales] (travel essay) c. 1194
Vita Sancti Davidis [Life of St. David] (biography) c. 1194
Vita Galfridi Archepiscopi Eboracensis [The Life of Archbishop Geoffrey of York] (biography) c. 1195
Gemma Ecclesiastica [The Jewel of the Church] (essay) c. 1197
Vita Sancti Remigii [Life of St. Rémi] (biography) c. 1198
De Rebus a se Gestis [The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambrensis] (autobiography) c. 1208
Vita Sancti Hugonis [Life of St. Hugh] (biography) c. 1213
De Invectionibus [Invectives] (essay) c. 1216
Speculum Duorum [A Mirror of Two Men] (essay) c. 1216
De Jure et Statu Menevensis Ecclesiae [The Rights and Status of St. David's] (essay) c. 1218
De Principis Instructione [On the Instruction of a Prince] (essay) c. 1218
Speculum Ecclesiae [Mirror of the Church] (essay) c. 1220
The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales and The Description of Wales [translated by Richard Colt Hoare] 1908
The Journey through Wales and The Description of Wales [translated by Lewis Thorpe] 1978
The History and Topography of Ireland [translated by John J. O'Meara] 1982
The Life of St. Hugh of Avalon: Bishop of Lincoln 1186-1200 and The Description of Wales [translated by Richard M. Loomis] 1985
I, Giraldus: The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambrensis (1145-1223) [translated by H. E. Butler with Anne Rutherford] 2002
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