Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Manuscripts, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Manuscripts, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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Author: R. Kennedy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230614930
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty - a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and political cultures. But the profound consequences of this first colonial adventure on the development of medieval English culture have been disregarded. In setting English figurations of Wales against the contrasted representations of the Welsh language tradition, this volume seeks to reverse this neglect, insisting on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales for any understanding of the literary cultures of medieval England and medieval Britain.

Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Manuscripts, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Manuscripts, Welsh
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Author: Catherine A.M. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131553651X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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A thriving port, a frontier base for the lords of Gower and a multi-cultural urban community, the south Wales town of Swansea was an important centre in the Middle Ages, at a nexus of multiple identities, cultural practices and configurations of power. As the principal town of the Marcher lordship of Gower and seat of the Marcher lord's rule, Swansea was a site of contested authority, colonial control and complex interactions – and collisions – between different cultures, languages and traditions. Swansea also features in the miracle collection prepared for the canonisation of Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1282), as the setting for the intriguing case of the hanging and strange revival of the Welsh rebel, William Cragh. Taking medieval Swansea and Wales as its starting point, this volume brings into focus questions of place, power, identity and belief, bringing together inter-disciplinary perspectives which span History, Literary Studies and Geography / Archaeology, and engaging with current debates in the fields of medieval frontier studies, urban history, manuscript studies and hagiography. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.

Author: Jane Cartwright
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322590
Category : Christian women martyrs
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Medieval Welsh literature is rich in hagiographical lore and numerous Welsh versions of the Lives of saints are extant, recording the legends of both native and universal saints. Although the cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins is well known internationally, this is the first time that a scholarly edition of her Welsh legend has been published in its entirety. Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen was adapted into Welsh by Sir Huw Pennant and it survives in a unique manuscript – Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 182 (c. 1509–1514). The edition is accompanied by a full glossary, as well as detailed textual and linguistic notes, and information on the development and transmission of the legend. The peculiarities of the Welsh text are considered in the introduction as well as the similarities it shares with other versions. The volume also considers the wider cultural context of the legend and discusses the Welsh cult of St Ursula and her companions. Welsh tradition claims that Ursula was Welsh and she became associated with the church at Llangwyryfon in Ceredigion and other minor Welsh chapels.

Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Category : Celtic antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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