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.
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