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Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages
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 Brittany; the opportunities for social advancement in town and country; and the patronage of church building, with illustrative narratives of St David’s Cathedral, Grosmont, and Newton Nottage. The book also details the emergence of approaches to the study of medieval Wales in the early twentieth century that added new strands to our understanding of Welsh history.
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List of Figures
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Memoir
R. Geraint Gruffydd
1. Anglo-Welsh agreements, 1201–77
Huw Pryce
2. Confederation not domination: Welsh political culture in the age of Gwynedd imperialism
David Carpenter
3. The chronicler of Cwm-hir abbey, 1257–63: the construction of a Welsh chronicle
David Stephenson
4. The Neath abbey Breviate of Domesday
Daniel Huws
5. Welsh infantry in Flanders in 1297
Michael Prestwich
6. Dynastic succession in early medieval Wales
T. M. Charles-Edwards
7. Settling disputes in early medieval Spain and Portugal: a contrast with Wales and Brittany?
Wendy Davies
8. English law and Welsh marcher courts in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Phillipp Schofield
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 Clywd, 1282–1536
D. Huw Owen
11. Modern 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