Welsh History in the Early Middle Ages
Welsh History in the Early Middle Ages

Author: Wendy Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780754659716

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This volume brings together Wendy Davies's pioneering early studies on the text of the Book of Llan Dâv and later pieces which explore the place of Wales in the wider world of the early middle ages. The Llandaff studies deal with arguably the most significant surviving text for early medieval Welsh history and have provoked much subsequent comment. The later work includes much-cited papers on the Latin charter tradition of the Celtic world and on 'Celtic' women, as well as studies of the so-called Celtic church and of the distinctiveness of Celtic saints - in all of which Welsh evidence makes a particularly important contribution. It also includes recent pieces on the environment and economy of early medieval Wales, which highlight some of the crucial new evidence provided by archaeology.

The Welsh and the Medieval World
The Welsh and the Medieval World

Author: Patricia Skinner

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2018-02-07

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1786831902

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Entry point into Welsh migration by experts: many of the contributors have longer studies that students can then read; Multi-disciplinary: shows how historical and literary sources can be read together, includes new archaeological data Showcases new work by a new generation of Welsh historians.

Medieval Welsh Genealogy
Medieval Welsh Genealogy

Author: Ben Guy

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2020-04-17

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9781783275137

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First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.

The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536
The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536

Author: Matthew Frank Stevens

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1786834855

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This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key themes include the evolution of the agrarian economy; the foundation and growth of towns; the adoption of a money economy; English colonisation and economic exploitation; the collapse of Welsh social structures and rise of economic individualism; the disastrous effect of the Glyndŵr rebellion; and, ultimately, the alignment of the Welsh economy to the English economy. Comprising four chapters, a narrative history is presented of the economic history of Wales, 1067–1536, and the final chapter tests the applicability in a Welsh context of the main theoretical frameworks that have been developed to explain long-term economic and social change in medieval Britain and Europe.

The Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March
The Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March

Author: Ben Guy

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9782503583495

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The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogyon families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbours for control over Wales. Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J. E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes, and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions, and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice.

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales
Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

Author: Paul Russell

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9780814213223

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Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment of Ovid's Ars amatoria, or The Art of Love, glossed mainly in Latin but also in Old Welsh. This study discusses the significance of the manuscript for classical studies and how it was absorbed into the classical Ovidian tradition.

The Arthur of the Welsh
The Arthur of the Welsh

Author: Rachel Bromwich

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Publisher description: This volume is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the Arthurian legend in Medieval Welsh literature. Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources.

Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales
Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales

Author: Oliver Davies

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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This first full-length theological study of sources from early medieval Wales traces common Celtic features in early Welsh religious literature. The author explores the origins of the earliest Welsh tradition in the fusion of Celtic primal religion with primitive Christianity, and traces some considerable Irish influence. These specific Celtic spiritual emphases are examined in the religious poetry of the Black Book of Carmarthen, the Book of Taliesin and the Poets of the Princes, and in prose texts such as The Food of the Soul and the Life of Beuno. Many of these Welsh texts appear here in English translation for the first time.

Medieval Powys
Medieval Powys

Author: David Stephenson

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 178327140X

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First full-scale account of the medieval realm of Powys.