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This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was
written in a period that saw the emergence of professional
historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in
the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work
on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on
the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless,
nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's
aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical
writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and
illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book begins
with an introduction that uses the concept of historical culture as
a way of exploring the different strands of historiography covered
in the collection, providing orientation to the chapters that
follow. These are divided into four sections: 'Contexts and
Backgrounds', 'Amateurs and Popularizers', 'Creating Academic
Disciplines', and 'Comparative Perspectives'. All these themes are
then drawn together in the conclusion to examine how far Welsh
historians exemplify widespread trends in the writing of national
history, and thereby point-up common themes that emerge from the
volume and clarify its broader significance for students of
historiography.
This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was
written in a period that saw the emergence of professional
historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in
the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work
on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on
the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless,
nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's
aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical
writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and
illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book begins
with an introduction that uses the concept of historical culture as
a way of exploring the different strands of historiography covered
in the collection, providing orientation to the chapters that
follow. These are divided into four sections: 'Contexts and
Backgrounds', 'Amateurs and Popularizers', 'Creating Academic
Disciplines', and 'Comparative Perspectives'. All these themes are
then drawn together in the conclusion to examine how far Welsh
historians exemplify widespread trends in the writing of national
history, and thereby point-up common themes that emerge from the
volume and clarify its broader significance for students of
historiography.
All aspects of the cult of St David, patron saint of Wales, are
examined in this wide-ranging volume. The cult of St David has been
an enduring symbol of Welsh identity across more than a millennium.
This volume, published to commemorate the fourteenth centenary of
the death of the saint, traces the evidence for the cult of St
David through archaeological, historical, hagiographical,
liturgical, and toponymic evidence, and considers the role of the
cult and church of St David in the history of Welsh society,
politics, and landscape. The collection includesa new edition and
translation of the Life of St David by Rhygyfarch, based on the
text in British Library Ms. Cotton Vespasian A.xiv, as well as new
evidence concerning the relics of the saint enshrined in St Davids
Cathedral. J. WYN EVANS is the Dean of St Davids Cathedral.
JONATHAN M. WOODING is Director of the Centre for the Study of
Religion in Celtic Societies at University of Wales Lampeter.
Contributors: JULIA BARROW,JANE CARTWRIGHT, FRED COWLEY, JOHN
REUBEN DAVIES, OWAIN TUDOR EDWARDS, J. WYN EVANS, G.R. ISAAC,
DANIEL HUWS, DAVID HOWLETT, T.F.G. HIGHAM, HEATHER JAMES, JOHN
MORGAN-GUY, L.D.M NOKES, HUW PRYCE, C. BRONK RAMSEY, MARK REDKNAP,
RICHARD SHARPE, BERNARD TANGUY, +GLANMOR WILLIAMS, JONATHAN M.
WOODING, W.N. YATES.
The latest collection of articles on Anglo-Norman topics, with a
particular focus on Wales. The 2007 conference on Anglo-Norman
Studies, the thirtieth in the annual series, was held in Wales, and
there is a Welsh flavour to the proceedings now published. Five of
the thirteen papers cover Welsh topics in the long twelfthcentury:
Church reform, political culture, the supposed resurgence of Powys
as a political entity, and interpreter families in the Marches,
besides a broad and compelling historiographical survey of the
place of the Normans in Welsh history. Twelfth-century England is
represented by papers on chivalry and kingship [in literature and
life], the Evesham surveys, lay charters, and Henry of Blois and
the arts. Essays which focus on the southern Italian city ofTrani
and on the crusader history of Ralph of Caen explore wider Norman
identities. Finally, there are two broad surveys contextualizing
the Anglo-Norman experience: on the careers of the clergy and on
how warriors were identified before heraldry. CONTRIBUTORS: HUW
PRYCE, LAURA ASHE, JULIA BARROW, HOWARD B. CLARKE, JOHN REUBEN
DAVIES, JUDITH EVERARD, NATASHA HODGSON, CHARLES INSLEY, ROBERT
JONES, PAUL OLDFIELD, DAVID STEPHENSON, FREDERICK SUPPE,JEFFREY
WEST.
This volume provides the first comprehensive collection of
charters, letters and other written acts issued by native rulers of
Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of
1282-3. It thereby makes more accessible than ever before a key
body of source material for the study of medieval Wales during 'the
age of the princes' - an era of struggles for power by native
rulers both among themselves and with Marcher lords and the English
crown. The documents assembled and analysed here illuminate a wide
range of topics including political developments and concepts of
authority in Wales, Anglo-Welsh relations, contacts with kings of
France and the papacy, benefactions to religious houses, dispute
settlement and uses of the written word in Welsh society.
Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading
medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees
Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political
culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays
range across ten centuries, looking at a variety of key topics.
Issues explored range from the historical representations of
peoples and the changing patterns of power and authority, to the
notions of 'core' and 'periphery' and the relationship between
local conditions and international movements. The political impact
of words and ideas, and the parallels between developments in Wales
and those elsewhere in Britain, Ireland and Europe are also
discussed. Appreciations of Rees Davies, a bibliography of his
works, and Davies' own farewell speech to the History Faculty at
the University of Oxford complete this outstanding tribute to a
much-missed scholar.
This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written
word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c.
1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of
much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and
importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both
medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the
Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are
the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral
and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval
Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the
survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in
eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of
literacy in later medieval Wales.
This collection examines the significance of the ways in which writing was used in the Celtic countries between c.400 and c.1500. It is concerned with the amount and types of material committed to writing as well as with the social groups that promoted the use of literacy and had access to its products. Presenting the fruits of much new research, the book is intended as a contribution to the study both of medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany in the Middle Ages.
This is the first full scholarly study of the relationship between
native secular law and the Church in medieval Wales. The
interaction was close, despite Archbishop Pecham's condemnation of
native law as the work of the devil. Huw Pryce assesses the
influence of the Church on Welsh law, examining the participation
of churchmen in the composition of lawbooks and the administration
of legal processes and analysing ecclesiastical criticism of native
customs, notably those concerning marriage. He also considers the
extent to which Welsh law defended the authority and possessions of
the Church, focusing in particular on the status of clerics and on
rights of sanctuary and lordship. The book throws revealing new
light on both secular law and the Church in Wales in the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. As a study of the impact of
ecclesiastical reform on a society perceived by some contemporaries
as barbarian and immoral, this scholarly and lucid account makes an
important contribution to medieval history.
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