Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages

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This is a major contribution to the study of medieval Wales by a group of outstanding British historians, writing in honour of one of Wales's most distinguished scholars and the biographer of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. The essays reflect exciting trends in the study of both Wales and the Middle Ages, including church building, chronicle writing, the comparative history of the law, valuable reassessments of town life and the implications of the Edwardian conquest of Wales.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Great Britain
• History
• Wales
• Europe

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• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 décembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708324479
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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WALES AND THE WELSH IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Essays presented to J. Beverley Smith

Edited by R. A. GrifIths and P. R. SchoIeld

University of Wales Press

WALES AND THE WELSH IN THE MIDDLE AGES

J. Beverley Smith

WALES AND THE WELSH IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Essays presented to J. Beverley Smith

Edited by R. A. Griffiths and P. R. Schofield

Cardiff University of Wales Press 2011

© The Contributors, 2011

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Preface List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Memoir R. GERAINT GRUFFYDD Anglo-Welsh agreements, 1201–77 HUW PRYCE Confederation not domination: Welsh political culture in the age of Gwynedd imperialism DAVID CARPENTER The chronicler at Cwm-hir abbey, 1257–63: the construction of a Welsh chronicle DAVID STEPHENSON The Neath abbeyBreviate of Domesday DANIEL HUWS Welsh infantry in Flanders in 1297 MICHAEL PRESTWICH Dynastic succession in early medieval Wales T. M. CHARLES-EDWARDS Settling disputes in early medieval Spain and Portugal: a contrast with Wales and Brittany? WENDY DAVIES English law and Welsh marcher courts in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries PHILLIPP SCHOFIELD

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9 Jones Pierce revisited: the evidence of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century extents A. D. CARR 10 Clans and gentry families in the Vale of Clwyd, 1282–1536 D. HUW OWEN 11Modern perspectives on medieval Welsh towns CHRISTOPHER DYER 12 Church-building in late medieval Wales RICHARD SUGGETT 13 William Rees and the modern study of medieval Wales RALPH GRIFFITHS

J. Beverley Smith: A Bibliography HUW WALTERS Contributors Index

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PREFACE

Beverley Smith retired from the Sir John Williams Chair of Welsh History at Aberystwyth in the early autumn of 1998. Since then he has continued to encourage the study of Wales’s history – and on a yet broader front – as Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales from 1991 to 1999, as general editor of the second volume of theHistory of Merioneth(with his wife Llinos – a notably produc- tive scholarly partnership, this), and as editor since 1974 (and still in post!) of the History and Law section of theBulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies/ Studia Celtica. The present volume of essays by some of his friends and colleagues reects the high regard in which he is held by historians of medi- eval Britain. It highlights a number of the themes with which his writings have been concerned, notably the political culture of medieval Wales and the interpretation of often exiguous evidence, the social complexities of rural and urban communities and the social implications of legal arrangements, always in a context wider than Wales itself. As editors, we are grateful to the present contributors and their enthusi- astic response to our invitation, in the knowledge that they represent many others who share, or have beneîted from, Beverley’s interests. We are partic- ularly grateful to R. Geraint Gruffydd for his personal Foreword to the volume. Two of the essays originated in the series of Foundation Lectures which Beverley was instrumental in establishing at Aberystwyth in memory of his mentor, T. Jones Pierce: it is eminently satisfying to be able to include them here. We are also grateful to Huw Walters of the National Library of Wales for compiling the List of Publications, and to Antony Smith, of Aberystwyth University, for the map of northern Spain. We acknowledge too the advice of Oliver Padel and the assistance of the Councils of Aberystwyth and Swansea Universities.