The Archaeology of the Welsh Marches
Author : S. C. Stanford
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1991
Category : England
ISBN : 9780950327150
Author : S. C. Stanford
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 1991
Category : England
ISBN : 9780950327150
Author : S. C. Stanford
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : David Stephenson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786838192
This is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class. Though they were of obscure and modest origins, the patronage of great lords of the March – such as the Mortimers of Wigmore or the de Bohun earls of Hereford – helped them to become prominent in Wales and the March, and increasingly in England. They helped to bring down anyone opposed by their patrons – like Llywelyn, prince of Wales in the thirteenth century, or Edward II in the 1320s. In the process, they sometimes faced great danger but they contrived to prosper, and unusually for Welshmen one branch became Marcher lords themselves. Another was prominent in Welsh and English government, becoming diplomats and courtiers of English kings, and over some five generations many achieved knighthood. Their fascinating careers perhaps hint at a more open society than is sometimes envisaged.
Author : Chris Musson
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John Halstead
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Archaeological evidence for Bronze Age (c,2500-750 BC) settlement in the Welsh Marches is limited and patchy with the focus of attention traditionally set on monuments and graves of the period. Despite this, John Halstead re-examines data from the Sites and Monuments Record relating to domestic settlement with a view to providing a better understanding of the nature and form of settlement locales and other activities during the period and assessing questions of settlement continuity, discontinuity and dislocation. Making inferences from site specific data and plotting these on maps of the area, he finds evidence for some degree of continuity in settlement locales and environments, perhaps with some residential mobility within these.
Author : Elizabeth Forster
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fortification, Prehistoric
ISBN :
Author : Max Lieberman
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 178683376X
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.
Author : Trevor Rowley
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : MYRDDIN AP. DAFYDD
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781845276843
A travel book along the Welsh Borders. Over the centuries, many have yearned for an eastern coastline to Wales, presuming it would make guarding the culture of Wales and controlling its fate much easier.
Author : John Hunter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0415135885
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to all the archaeological periods covering Britain from early prehistory to the industrial revolution. It provides a one-stop textbook for the entire archaeology of Britain.