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The post-Norman ecclesiastical and political transformation of
south-east Wales, recorded in early C12 manuscript. This book
explores the ecclesiastical and political transformation of
south-east Wales in the later eleventh and early twelfth centuries.
Ecclesiastical and administrative reform was one of the defining
characteristics of the Norman regime in Britain, and the author
argues that a new generation of clergy in South Wales was at the
heart of this reforming programme. The focus of this volume is the
early twelfth-century Book of Llandaf, one of the most perplexing
but exciting historical works from post-Conquest Britain. It has
long been viewed as a primary source for the history of early
medieval Wales, but here it is presented in a fresh light, as a
monument to learning and literature in Norman Wales, produced in
the same literary milieu as Geoffrey of Monmouth. As such, the Book
of Llandaf provides us with valuable insights into the state of the
Norman Church in Wales, and allows us to understand how it thought
about its past. JOHN DAVIES is Research Fellow in Scottish History,
University of Edinburgh
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