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Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Vol. for 1963 includes special number: The Welsh laws.

Author: John Gwynfor Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783164034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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This volume is broadly divided into two main sections. The first part comprises a detailed introduction to the background of "The Dialogue", written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire, followed by an updated version of the text with explanatory notes. George Owen was the most observant Welsh historians of the late sixteenth century, and in the "Dialogue" he discusses the main functions of legal institutions of government in Tudor Wales following the Acts of Union (1536-43). The discourse is not merely a description of those institutions but rather, in the form of a dialogue, it provides an analysis of the good and bad aspects of the Tudor legal structure. Emphasis is placed on the administration of the Acts of Union, and comparisons are drawn with the harsh penal legislation which had previously been imposed by Henry IV. Owen reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the Henrician settlement, but heartily praises the Tudor regime, regarding Henry VII and Henry VIII as liberators of the Welsh nation which the author, in the 'prophetic tradition', associated with the nation's historic destiny. In this 'Dialogue' Demetus is described as a native Welsh gentleman and Barthol as the German lawyer from Frankfort travelling through Europe and observing legal practices. The Socratic method applied reveals the Renaissance style of conducting debates, a framework which gives the work much of its appeal. The "Dialogue" is an invaluable Tudor source which places Welsh Tudor government and administration in a broader historical perspective.

Author: Phyllis M. Jacobs
Publisher: [London] : University of London, Institute of Historical Research
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom.

Author: John Kerrigan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national groups around the British-Irish archipelago. This book transforms our understanding of canonical texts from Macbeth to Defoe's Colonel Jack, but it also shows the significance of a whole series of authors (from William Drummond in Scotland to the Earl of Orrery in County Cork) who were prominent during their lifetimes but who have since become neglected because they do not fit the Anglocentric paradigm. With its European and imperial dimensions, and its close attention to the cultural make-up of early modern Britain and Ireland, Archipelagic English authoritatively engages with, questions, and develops the claim now made by historians that the crises of the seventeenth century stem from the instabilities of a state-system which, between 1603 and 1707, was multiple, mixed, and inclined to let local quarrels spiral into all-consuming conflict. This is a major, interdisciplinary contribution to literary and historical scholarship which is also set to influence present-day arguments about devolution, unionism, and nationalism in Britain and Ireland.

Author: National Library of Wales
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Category : National libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: University of London
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: University of London
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Alun Eirug Davies
Publisher: [Caerdydd (Cardiff)] : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru ar ran y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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