Author: Ben Guy
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781783275137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.
Medieval Welsh Genealogy
Author: Ben Guy
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781783275137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781783275137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.
Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts
Author: Peter C. Bartrum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708300497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708300497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Welsh Family History
Author: John Rowlands
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316208
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"Published in the UK by the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd. in conjunction with the Association of Family History Societies of Wales."--T.p. verso.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316208
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"Published in the UK by the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd. in conjunction with the Association of Family History Societies of Wales."--T.p. verso.
History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales
Author: Rebecca Thomas
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846276
Category : Book of Taliesin
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Crucial texts from ninth- and tenth-century Wales analysed to show their key role in identify formation. WINNER OF THE FRANCIS JONES PRIZE 2022 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 characteristics were important and using these to construct ethnic identities. This book explores this process of identity construction in texts from early medieval Wales, focusing primarily on the early ninth-century Latin history of the Britons (Historia Brittonum), the biography of Alfred the Great composed by the Welsh scholar Asser in 893, and the tenth-century vernacular poem Armes Prydein Vawr ("The Great Prophecy of Britain"). It examines how these writers set about distinguishing between the Welsh and the other gentes inhabiting the island of Britain through the use of names, attention to linguistic difference, and the writing of history and origin legends. Crucially important was the identity of the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of the entirety of Britain; its significance and durability are investigated, alongside its interaction with the emergence of an identity focused on the geographical unit of Wales.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846276
Category : Book of Taliesin
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Crucial texts from ninth- and tenth-century Wales analysed to show their key role in identify formation. WINNER OF THE FRANCIS JONES PRIZE 2022 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 characteristics were important and using these to construct ethnic identities. This book explores this process of identity construction in texts from early medieval Wales, focusing primarily on the early ninth-century Latin history of the Britons (Historia Brittonum), the biography of Alfred the Great composed by the Welsh scholar Asser in 893, and the tenth-century vernacular poem Armes Prydein Vawr ("The Great Prophecy of Britain"). It examines how these writers set about distinguishing between the Welsh and the other gentes inhabiting the island of Britain through the use of names, attention to linguistic difference, and the writing of history and origin legends. Crucially important was the identity of the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of the entirety of Britain; its significance and durability are investigated, alongside its interaction with the emergence of an identity focused on the geographical unit of Wales.
Welsh Genealogies, A.D. 300-1400
Author: Peter C. Bartrum
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9780708305614
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9780708305614
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Medieval Welsh 'Englynion Y Beddau'
Author: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384706X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry.The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain", attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin, describe ancient heroes' burial places. Like the "Triads of the Island of Britain", they are an indispensable key to the narrative literature of medieval Wales. The heroes come from the whole of Britain, including Mercia and present-day Scotland, as well as many from Wales and a few from Ireland. Many characters known from the Mabinogion appear, often with additional information, as do some from romance and early Welsh saga, such as Arthur, Bedwyr, Gawain, Owain son of Urien, Merlin, and Vortigern. The seventh-century grave of Penda of Mercia, beneath the river Winwæd in Yorkshire, is the latest grave to be included. The poems testify to the interest aroused by megaliths, tumuli, and other apparently man-made monuments, some of which can be identified with known prehistoric remains.This volume offers a full edition and translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384706X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry.The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain", attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin, describe ancient heroes' burial places. Like the "Triads of the Island of Britain", they are an indispensable key to the narrative literature of medieval Wales. The heroes come from the whole of Britain, including Mercia and present-day Scotland, as well as many from Wales and a few from Ireland. Many characters known from the Mabinogion appear, often with additional information, as do some from romance and early Welsh saga, such as Arthur, Bedwyr, Gawain, Owain son of Urien, Merlin, and Vortigern. The seventh-century grave of Penda of Mercia, beneath the river Winwæd in Yorkshire, is the latest grave to be included. The poems testify to the interest aroused by megaliths, tumuli, and other apparently man-made monuments, some of which can be identified with known prehistoric remains.This volume offers a full edition and translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects.
Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March
Author: David Stephenson
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786838192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class. Though they were of obscure and modest origins, the patronage of great lords of the March – such as the Mortimers of Wigmore or the de Bohun earls of Hereford – helped them to become prominent in Wales and the March, and increasingly in England. They helped to bring down anyone opposed by their patrons – like Llywelyn, prince of Wales in the thirteenth century, or Edward II in the 1320s. In the process, they sometimes faced great danger but they contrived to prosper, and unusually for Welshmen one branch became Marcher lords themselves. Another was prominent in Welsh and English government, becoming diplomats and courtiers of English kings, and over some five generations many achieved knighthood. Their fascinating careers perhaps hint at a more open society than is sometimes envisaged.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786838192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of a Welsh family of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries who were not drawn from the princely class. Though they were of obscure and modest origins, the patronage of great lords of the March – such as the Mortimers of Wigmore or the de Bohun earls of Hereford – helped them to become prominent in Wales and the March, and increasingly in England. They helped to bring down anyone opposed by their patrons – like Llywelyn, prince of Wales in the thirteenth century, or Edward II in the 1320s. In the process, they sometimes faced great danger but they contrived to prosper, and unusually for Welshmen one branch became Marcher lords themselves. Another was prominent in Welsh and English government, becoming diplomats and courtiers of English kings, and over some five generations many achieved knighthood. Their fascinating careers perhaps hint at a more open society than is sometimes envisaged.
Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
Author: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199588651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199588651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales
Author: Georgia Henley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192670271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought into the broader stream of political consciousness by major baronial families from the March (the borderlands between England and Wales), this inventive history generated a new brand of literature interested in succession, land rights, and the origins of imperial power, as imagined by Geoffrey of Monmouth. These marcher families leveraged their ancestral, political, and ideological ties to Wales in order to strengthen their political power, both regionally and nationally, through the patronage of historical and genealogical texts that reimagined the Welsh past on their terms. In doing so, they brought ideas of Welsh history to a wider audience than previously recognized and came to have a profound effect on late medieval thought about empire, monarchy, and succession.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192670271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought into the broader stream of political consciousness by major baronial families from the March (the borderlands between England and Wales), this inventive history generated a new brand of literature interested in succession, land rights, and the origins of imperial power, as imagined by Geoffrey of Monmouth. These marcher families leveraged their ancestral, political, and ideological ties to Wales in order to strengthen their political power, both regionally and nationally, through the patronage of historical and genealogical texts that reimagined the Welsh past on their terms. In doing so, they brought ideas of Welsh history to a wider audience than previously recognized and came to have a profound effect on late medieval thought about empire, monarchy, and succession.
The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, C.1100-c.1500
Author: Sara Elin Roberts
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277262
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277262
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.