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Writing Welsh History - From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Writing Welsh History - From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history
of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen
hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of
historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent
global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of
Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on
the use of the past to articulate national and other identities.
The study's broad chronological scope serves to highlight important
continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring
preoccupation is Wales's place in Britain. Down to the twentieth
century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people
descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in
its fullest sense ended with Edward I's conquest of Wales in
1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated
appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives,
based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down
to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied
historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and
chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded
significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the
modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly
internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of
social, economic, and political developments in Wales and
elsewhere.
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