Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.
Though a part of Great Britain, Wales has its own unique culture including its own language, customs, and folklore. Wales also offers stunning natural beauty, featuring valleys, mountains, rivers, lakes, and hundreds of miles of coastline. This guide utilizes vivid photographs, facts, and sidebars to showcase historic and contemporary Wales, offering an in-depth examination into the country's past, government, culture, and its relation to the United Kingdom. It highlights the country's modern operations, including its current political climate, religious affiliations, cuisine, and arts. Your readers will also learn about pressing issues related to its ecology, conservation, and school systems.
Garden lovers will have to own this leading, fully updated guide! Produced by the Royal Horticultural Society, it reveals where to see plants growing in more than 1,000 British gardens--including 150 nurseries and demonstration gardens--that are open to the public. Each entry, which is listed alphabetically by country or region, includes a description, with highlights and key features; full contact details, including opening times, admission fees, and coded facilities; and brief directions. In addition, there are comprehensive regional maps at the back, and an alphabetical listing to help visitors choose the gardens with the very finest displays.
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Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.