Cartae et alia munimenta quae ad dominium de Glamorgancia pertinent
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Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Glamorgan (Wales)
ISBN :
Cartae alia munimenta quae ad dominium de Glamorgancia pertinent: 447-1218
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Glamorgan (Wales)
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Medieval Wales c.1050-1332
Author : David Stephenson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786833883
Book Description
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.
Medieval Society and the Manor Court
Author : Zvi Razi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198201908
Book Description
The records of manorial courts have been used increasingly as the principal source for the reconstruction of rural and small town society in medieval England. They offer a unique source with which to investigate peasant demography, family patterns, the village community and economy, the characteristics and instruments of customary law, and the ways in which that law was perceived and exploited by landlords and tenants. The essays in this collection provide novel approaches to all of these themes and are written by many of the historians who have pioneered the use of this source category in the last two decades. In two introductory chapters, the editors review the historiography of manorial court rolls and account for their origins as a distinctive record of customary law within the broad context of medieval European society. A valuable appendix contains an inventory of the most comprehensive unprinted manorial court roll series arranged systematically on a county-to-county basis, detailing the repository in which they are located. This book will serve as an essential reference tool for any serious study of medieval English rural society.
Annual Report
Author : National Museum of Wales
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 1928
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ISBN :
Book Description
Two Select Bibliographies of Mediæval Historical Study
Author : Margaret Finley Moore
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9004410392
Book Description
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s own life, background, and motivations are little understood. The volume situates his life and works within their immediate historical context, and frames them within current critical discussion across the humanities. By necessity, this volume concentrates primarily on Geoffrey’s own life and times, with the reception of his works covered by a series of short encyclopaedic overviews, organized by language, that serve as guides to further reading. Contributors are Jean Blacker, Elizabeth Bryan, Thomas H. Crofts, Siân Echard, Fabrizio De Falco, Michael Faletra, Ben Guy, Santiago Gutiérrez García, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Paloma Gracia, Georgia Henley, David F. Johnson, Owain Wyn Jones, Maud Burnett McInerney, Françoise Le Saux, Barry Lewis, Coral Lumbley, Simon Meecham-Jones, Paul Russell, Victoria Shirley, Joshua Byron Smith, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Hélène Tétrel, Rebecca Thomas, Fiona Tolhurst.
The Welsh Wars of Independence
Author : David Moore
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0752496484
Book Description
Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The wars of Welsh independence encompassed centuries of raids, expeditions, battles and sieges, but they were more than a series of military encounters: they were a political process.
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
Author : J. Beverley Smith
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1783160837
Book Description
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales is an outstanding work by an author with a perceptive understanding of the complexities of his subject. It is clearly, sometimes passionately, written and is destined to be the definitive work on this matter for many generations. This is the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1225-1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which he lived. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations.
The March of Wales 1067-1300
Author : Max Lieberman
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 178683376X
Book Description
By 1300, a region often referred to as the March of Wales had been created between England and the Principality of Wales. This March consisted of some forty castle-centred lordships extending along the Anglo-Welsh border and also across southern Wales. It took shape over more than two centuries, between the Norman conquest of England (1066) and the English conquest of Wales (1283), and is mentioned in Magna Carta (1215). It was a highly distinctive part of the political geography of Britain for much of the Middle Ages, yet the medieval March has long vanished, and today expressions like 'the marches' are used rather vaguely to refer to the Welsh Borders.What was the medieval March of Wales? How and why was it created? The March of Wales, 1067-1300: A Borderland of Medieval Britain provides comprehensible and concise answers to such questions. With the aid of maps, a list of key dates and source material such as the writings of Gerald of Wales (c.1146-1223), this book also places the March in the context of current academic debates on the frontiers, peoples and countries of the medieval British Isles.
