The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages
The Principality of Wales in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Ralph A. Griffiths

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1786832666

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An original study without rival. Comprehensive in its coverage of government and society. Appreciative reviews of the original edition and shown to be valuable to a range of scholars, writers and others.

The Gentry of North Wales in the Later Middle Ages
The Gentry of North Wales in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Antony D Carr

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1786831376

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This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor state in the sixteenth. The limitation of the discussion to north Wales is deliberate; there has often been a tendency to treat Wales as a single region, but it is important to stress that, like any other country, it is itself made up of regions and that a uniformity based on generalisation cannot be imposed. This book describes the development of the gentry in one part of Wales from an earlier social structure and an earlier pattern of land tenure, and how the gentry came to rule their localities. There have been a number of studies of the medieval English gentry, usually based on individual counties, but the emphasis in a Welsh study is not necessarily the same as that in one relating to England. The rich corpus of medieval poetry addressed to the leaders of native society and the wealth of genealogical material and its potential are two examples of this difference in emphasis.

Medieval Wales c.1050-1332
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332

Author: David Stephenson

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1786833875

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After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the ‘intrusive’ marcher lords, for instance, it is considered from a Welsh standpoint explaining the lure of the March to Welsh princes and its contribution to the fall of the native principality of Wales. Analysis of the achievements of the princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries focuses on the paradoxical process by which increasingly sophisticated political structures and a changing political culture supported an autonomous native principality, but also facilitated eventual assimilation of much of Wales into an English ‘empire’. The Edwardian conquest is examined and it is argued that, alongside the resultant hardship and oppression suffered by many, the rising class of Welsh administrators and community leaders who were essential to the governance of Wales enjoyed an age of opportunity. This is a book that introduces the reader to the celebrated and the less well-known men and women who shaped medieval Wales.