Oxford University Press, 2013. — 816 p. 28 maps and 7 black and white images. — (The Oxford History of Wales, Vol. 1). This is a history of the Welsh in the centuries in which Wales acquired the shape it was to retain until the present day. In 350 what is now Wales was just one part of Roman Britain: contemporaries had no notion of Wales or the Welsh in the later-medieval or...
University of Wales Press, 2002. — 614 p. Aptly edited by the collective efforts of T.M. Charles-Edwards, Morfydd M. Owen, and Paul Russell, The Welsh King And His Court is a massive compendium of essays filled with meticulous discourse of the Welsh royal household and the governmental roles of those officers charged with upkeep of horses, sleeping quarters, meals, etc. Primary...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 232 p. Edward I’s conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 years. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies’s...
University of Wales Press, 2017. — 176 p. Bleddyn ap Cynfyn was a Welsh king who ruled over Gwynedd and Powys in the eleventh century. He was at the heart of the events that forged Britain before, during, and after the Norman Conquest of 1066, one of its most significant historical periods. The First Prince of Wales? offers important new context for those events through which...
Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2000. 318 p. ISBN: 0-7083-1594-1; 0–7083–1553–4 [Welsh history text books – Vol.4]. A History of Wales, 1906-2000 is the fourth volume in a series beginning in 1485. This invaluable survey examines the main economic, social, political and cultural developments of hte last century in Wales. Wales has undergone sweeping changes during the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 258 p. Introduction: The Scrap-Heap of History Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Matter of Wales Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden: Courtly Britain and Its Others Chrétien de Troyes, Wales, and the Matiere of Britain Crooked Greeks: Hybridity, History, and Gerald of Wales Epilogue: The Birds of Rhiannon
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 311 p. This book examines the making of the March of Wales and the crucial role its lords played in the politics of medieval Britain between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and the English conquest of Wales in 1283. Max Lieberman argues that the Welsh borders of Shropshire, which were first, from c. 1165, referred to as Marchia Wallie,...
University of Wales Press, 2018. — 336 p. How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them, and what did they bring back? The first book to study the medieval Welsh on the move, The Welsh and the Medieval World offers a multidisciplinary entry point into Welsh migration and showcases a bold new...
Translated by Sioned Davies. — Oxford University Press, 2007. — 336 p. Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history–these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman...
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