AMS Press, 1978. — 357 p. Personal reading, but also helpful in preparing a short history of the medieval Welsh princes throughout history. It is very well written and is almost poetic in the descriptions by an author well-known and respected in Victorian literature. Glyndwr is without doubt the national hero of the majority of Welshmen. Precisely why he takes precedence of...
Amberley Publishing, 2012. — 224 p. If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales. Yet Glyndwr is hardly known - a cultured, literate warrior who was never betrayed or captured and vanished into history. No less than six separate...
Amberley Publishing, 2012. — 222 p. If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation. His war is the defining era in the history of Wales. Yet Glyndwr is hardly known - a cultured, literate warrior who was never betrayed or captured and vanished into history. No less than six separate...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 304 p. This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor state in the sixteenth. The limitation of the discussion to north Wales is deliberate; there has often been a tendency to treat Wales as a single region, but it is important to stress that,...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 304 p. This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor state in the sixteenth. The limitation of the discussion to north Wales is deliberate; there has often been a tendency to treat Wales as a single region, but it is important to stress that,...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 216 p. Like William Wallace in Scotland, Owain Glyndwr fought for his country and was only finally defeated by superior numbers and the military genius of Henry V. Yet Glyndwr was not just a freedom fighter. He was the last native-born Prince of Wales, a man who initiated the first Welsh parliament at Machynlleth and proposed an entirely...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 217 p. Like William Wallace in Scotland, Owain Glyndwr fought for his country and was only finally defeated by superior numbers and the military genius of Henry V. Yet Glyndwr was not just a freedom fighter. He was the last native-born Prince of Wales, a man who initiated the first Welsh parliament at Machynlleth and proposed an entirely...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 264 p. This is the first book for a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. This collection of essays confronts the paradox that, though agriculture lay at the heart of medieval society, understanding of what...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 232 p. Edward I’s conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 years. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies’s...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 232 p. Edward I’s conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 years. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies’s...
University of Wales Press, 2017. — 176 p. Bleddyn ap Cynfyn was a Welsh king who ruled over Gwynedd and Powys in the eleventh century. He was at the heart of the events that forged Britain before, during, and after the Norman Conquest of 1066, one of its most significant historical periods. The First Prince of Wales? offers important new context for those events through which...
Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982. — 263 p. — (Studies in the Early History of Britain 2). "This is the first general study of early Welsh history since the publication of the second edition of Sir J. E. Lloyd's stately plump two-volume History of Wales in 1912. The history of Wales from the end of Roman rule until the beginning of Norman conquest is approached...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 528 p. - Uses archaeology and other evidence to uncover how people lived in late Roman and early medieval Wales and how their lives changed over time - Draws comparisons between Wales and the rest of Britain and the wider medieval world - Includes discussion of the evidence of archaeological 'grey literature' reports and other data not readily...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 528 p. - Uses archaeology and other evidence to uncover how people lived in late Roman and early medieval Wales and how their lives changed over time - Draws comparisons between Wales and the rest of Britain and the wider medieval world - Includes discussion of the evidence of archaeological 'grey literature' reports and other data not readily...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 258 p.
Introduction: The Scrap-Heap of History
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Matter of Wales
Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden: Courtly Britain and Its Others
Chrétien de Troyes, Wales, and the Matiere of Britain
Crooked Greeks: Hybridity, History, and Gerald of Wales
Epilogue: The Birds of Rhiannon
University of Wales Press, 2012. — 334 p. This collection of articles examines towns and urban life as part of the cultural fabric of late-medieval Wales. Though medieval Welsh towns were small relative to those in England and Europe, they had a significant impact on what was at the time a largely rural economy. As the sites of political and cultural tension between English and...
University of Wales Press, 2012. — 334 p. This collection of articles examines towns and urban life as part of the cultural fabric of late-medieval Wales. Though medieval Welsh towns were small relative to those in England and Europe, they had a significant impact on what was at the time a largely rural economy. As the sites of political and cultural tension between English and...
University of Wales Press, 2012. — 334 p. This collection of articles examines towns and urban life as part of the cultural fabric of late-medieval Wales. Though medieval Welsh towns were small relative to those in England and Europe, they had a significant impact on what was at the time a largely rural economy. As the sites of political and cultural tension between English and...
2nd Edition. — University of Wales Press, 2018. — 672 p. This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings on the subject. Part I...
2nd Edition. — University of Wales Press, 2018. — 672 p. This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings on the subject. Part I...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 672 p. This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I’s conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII’s ‘act of Union’. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings on the subject. Part I discusses the...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — 252 p. Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages presents the latest research of more than a dozen distinguished British historians on Wales during the Middle Ages. The essays cover a vast range of topics, among them the politics and political culture of Wales in the early kingdoms; the law and economy in Wales as related to that of Spain and...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 475 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 31). The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 545 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 42). Genealogy was a central element of life in medieval Wales. It was the force that held society together and the framework for all political action. For these reasons, genealogical writing in medieval Wales, as elsewhere in Europe, became a fundamental tool for representing and manipulating perceptions of the...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 545 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 42). First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance. Genealogy was a central element of life in medieval Wales. It was the force that held society together and the framework for all political action. For these reasons, genealogical writing in medieval Wales, as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 262 p. Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe - from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies, Kathryn Hurlock peels...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 262 p. Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe - from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies, Kathryn Hurlock peels...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — 282 p. This original study, focussing on the impact of the crusading movement in medieval Wales, considers both the enthusiasm of the Welsh and those living in Wales and its borders for the crusades, as well as the domestic impact of the movement on warfare, literature, politics and patronage. The location of Wales on the periphery of mainstream...
University of Wales Press, 2000. — 352 p. Twentieth-century work on Welsh manuscripts has been dependent on the publications of Gwenogvryn Evans a century ago. This text provides a coherent view of the Welsh manuscript tradition and detailed studies which have transformed our understanding of some of the key manuscripts.
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 255 p. — (The Sources of History). The sources for the history of medieval Wales are scanty, sporadic and physically scattered. Neither in archival, narrative nor archaeological remains is Wales comparable to England, and what survives is less accessible, for there has been a notable reluctance among Welsh scholars to produce guides and...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 304 p. This book is an account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on one particular case-study, Nest of Deheubarth. A key figure in one of the most notorious and portentous abductions of the middle ages, this 'Helen of Wales' was both mistress of Henry I and ancestress of a dynasty which dominated the Anglo-Norman...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 304 p. This book is an account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on one particular case-study, Nest of Deheubarth. A key figure in one of the most notorious and portentous abductions of the middle ages, this 'Helen of Wales' was both mistress of Henry I and ancestress of a dynasty which dominated the Anglo-Norman...
University of St Andrews, 2019. — 240 p. This thesis attempts to explain the papacy's significance to Welsh polities and the Welsh Church prior to the Edwardian Conquest of Wales. Though there has been little sustained consideration of Wales and the papacy during this period, it has been thought that relations developed significantly after the eleventh century. The written work...
University Of Hertfordshire Press, 2022. — 256 p. While the Edwardian castles of Conwy, Beaumaris, Harlech, and Caernarfon are rightly hailed as outstanding examples of castle architecture, the castles of the native Welsh princes are far more enigmatic. Where some dominate their surroundings as completely as any castle of Edward I, others are concealed in the depths of forests,...
Cardiff University, 2015. — 436 p. This thesis explores the personal, territorial/economic and spiritual networks of the Cantilupes and the Corbets, two families from different levels of the thirteenth century gentry. The Cantilupes were curiales; the Corbets were established Marchers who did not enter the king’s court. The study shows that each had a strong command of their...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — 193 p. The Medieval Castles of Wales is a concise but informative guide that highlights the most important and interesting medieval castles throughout the Welsh countryside. The opening chapter traces the history of castle architecture in Britain. The five subsequent chapters—divided by region—guide the reader through these magnificent...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 311 p. This book examines the making of the March of Wales and the crucial role its lords played in the politics of medieval Britain between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and the English conquest of Wales in 1283. Max Lieberman argues that the Welsh borders of Shropshire, which were first, from c. 1165, referred to as Marchia Wallie,...
York Medieval Press, 2014. — 290 p. The Welsh Revolt of Owain Glyndwr (1400-c.1415) was a remarkable event in both English and Welsh contexts, and as such was narrated by a number of chroniclers, including Adam Usk, John Capgrave, Thomas Walsingham and Edward Halle. They offer a range of perspectives on the events, as well as portrayals of the main characters (especially, of...
The History Press, 2000. — 213 p. The author produces revealing pictures of the leading Welsh kings and princes of the day and explores both their contribution to Welsh history and their impact on the wider world. They were, of necessity, warriors, living in a violent political world and requiring ruthless skills to even begin to rule in Wales. Yet they showed wider vision,...
The History Press, 2000. — 264 p. When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety of independent kingdoms with varying degrees of power, influence and stability, each ruled by...
The History Press, 2000. — 264 p. When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety of independent kingdoms with varying degrees of power, influence and stability, each ruled by...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 256 p. This is the first book to ever be written on Joan, Lady of Wales, the first woman to be designated with such a title. Her role a political diplomat in early 13th century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of...
Tempus, 2005. — 256 p. Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in 410 AD. The Welsh achieved this despite Irish and Viking raids and colonization, despite the growing power of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and despite frequent and often bitter dissension between themselves. Part of the Tempus History of Wales series, this study analyzes...
The History Press, 2014. — 224 p. Christianity arrived in Wales with the Romans and spread rapidly in the early medieval period. Evidence for its success survives in the form of early stone sculpture and inscriptions, reliquaries and other holy objects and frequent references in historical documents. However, there are also many myths and misconceptions about Christianity in...
University of Wales Press, 2005. — 960 p. 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...
University of Wales Press, 2005. — 960 p. 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...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 270 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 45). The Middle Ages in Wales were turbulent, with society and culture in constant flux. Edward I of England's 1282 conquest brought with it major changes to society, governance, power and identity, and thereby to the traditional system of the law. Despite this, in the post-conquest period the development of law in...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 270 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 45). The Middle Ages in Wales were turbulent, with society and culture in constant flux. Edward I of England's 1282 conquest brought with it major changes to society, governance, power and identity, and thereby to the traditional system of the law. Despite this, in the post-conquest period the development of law in...
Laurel A. Rockefeller Books, 2021. — 59 p. Nata nel 1097, presso il castello di Aberffraw, Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd ap Cynan era destinata a lasciare un segno indelebile nella storia gallese. Figlia di uno tra i più valorosi condottieri del regno di Gwynedd, la principessa divenne coraggiosa e piena di passione – al pari dei suoi fratelli maggiori. A sedici anni, incontra il...
University of Wales Press, 2016. — 352 p. Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its periphery...
The Boydell Press, 2019. — 234 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 38). The early-twelfth-century Book of Llandaf is rightly notorious for its bogus documents - but it also provides valuable information on the early medieval history of south-east Wales and the adjacent parts of England. This study focuses on its 159 charters, which purport to date from the fifth century to the...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 336 p. How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them, and what did they bring back? The first book to study the medieval Welsh on the move, The Welsh and the Medieval World offers a multidisciplinary entry point into Welsh migration and showcases a bold new generation...
University of Wales Press, 2014. — 680 p. This is a new edition of the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1225–1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book, J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which he lived. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales is an outstanding work by an author...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 344 p. In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely imaginative genre, one...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 365 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 35). Powys, extending over north-east and central Wales, was one of three great medieval Welsh polities, along with Gwynedd to the north and Deheubarth (south-west), occupying nearly a quarter of the country. However, it has been somewhat neglected by historians, who have tended to dismiss it as a satellite realm of...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 256 p. 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...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 256 p. 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...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 144 p. This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key landmarks that are foundational to Welsh economic progress include the evolution of the agrarian economy, the settlement and growth of towns, the adoption of a monetary system, English colonization and...
University of Wales Press, 2019. — 144 p. This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key landmarks that are foundational to Welsh economic progress include the evolution of the agrarian economy, the settlement and growth of towns, the adoption of a monetary system, English colonization and...
University of Wales Press, 2010. — 275 p. This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282. It carefully constructs an image of...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 455 p. — (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 31). This book offers a collection of new studies on the chronicles of medieval Wales and the March, supported by synoptic pieces placing the tradition of chronicle writing in Wales within the context of historical writing on a broader scale. The volume is accompanied by five editions and...
Boydell & Brewer, 2022. — 220 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 44). Early medieval writers viewed the world as divided into gentes ("peoples"). These were groups that could be differentiated from each other according to certain characteristics - by the language they spoke or the territory they inhabited, for example. The same writers played a key role in deciding which...
Boydell & Brewer, 2022. — 220 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 44). Early medieval writers viewed the world as divided into gentes ("peoples"). These were groups that could be differentiated from each other according to certain characteristics - by the language they spoke or the territory they inhabited, for example. The same writers played a key role in deciding which...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 248 p. — (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks). This book provides an introduction to the history of medieval Wales, with particular emphasis on political developments. It traces the growth of Welsh princely power, and the invasion and settlement of Welsh territories by Norman adventurers which resulted in the erosion of Welsh princely authority in...
Y Lolfa, 2012. — 208 p. On the morning of September 16, in the year 1400, before a large assembly of fighting men from Gwynedd and Powys, Owain Glyn Dwr raised the flag of rebellion against English hegemony. From that time on, until his death c.1416, Owain fought a succession of savage battles against superior English forces. This is the compelling tale of a warrior prince and...
СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 208 с. В монографии, посвященной Уэльсу XII-XIV вв., М.Е. Лошкарева обращается к изучению уникальных, но при этом недостаточно освещенных в российской медиевистики проблем местной правовой культуры культуры и политической мифологии; сделанные наблюдения позволяют говорить об особом значении валлийской традиции для становления...
СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 208 с. В монографии, посвященной Уэльсу XII—XIV вв., М.Е. Лошкарева обращается к изучению уникальных, но при этом недостаточно освещенных в российской медиевистики проблем местной правовой культуры культуры и политической мифологии; сделанные наблюдения позволяют говорить об особом значении валлийской традиции для становления...
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