Wales and the Britons 350 1064

Wales and the Britons  350 1064
Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publsiher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 816
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198217312

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The most detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. Integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events.

The First Prince of Wales

The First Prince of Wales
Author: Sean Davies
Publsiher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781783169375

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This is the first book on one of Wales’s greatest leaders, arguably ‘first prince of Wales’, Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. Bleddyn was at the heart of the tumultuous events that forged Britain in the cauldron of Norman aggression, and his reign offers an important new perspective on the events of 1066 and beyond. He was a leader who used alliances on the wider British scale as he strove to recreate the fledgling kingdom of Wales that had been built and ruled by his brother, though outside pressures and internal intrigues meant his successors would compete ultimately for a principality.

Medieval Wales c 1050 1332

Medieval Wales c 1050 1332
Author: David Stephenson
Publsiher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781786833877

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After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the ‘intrusive’ marcher lords, for instance, it is considered from a Welsh standpoint explaining the lure of the March to Welsh princes and its contribution to the fall of the native principality of Wales. Analysis of the achievements of the princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries focuses on the paradoxical process by which increasingly sophisticated political structures and a changing political culture supported an autonomous native principality, but also facilitated eventual assimilation of much of Wales into an English ‘empire’. The Edwardian conquest is examined and it is argued that, alongside the resultant hardship and oppression suffered by many, the rising class of Welsh administrators and community leaders who were essential to the governance of Wales enjoyed an age of opportunity. This is a book that introduces the reader to the celebrated and the less well-known men and women who shaped medieval Wales.

Llanilltud

Llanilltud
Author: Phillip Morris
Publsiher: Y Lolfa
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781784619657

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Probably Britain's oldest centre of learning and important across the whole of medieval western Europe, St Illtud's monastery and school at Llantwit Major, south Wales flourished from c.500 AD to the Reformation. This is the first detailed history of the Celtic Christian community there - one of the greatest untold stories in British history.

The British Heroic Age

The British Heroic Age
Author: Flint F. Johnson
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781476626116

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Drawing on historical documents, legends, archeology and literature, this history describes the disintegration of Roman Britain that reached a climax in the decades after the Britons overthrew Constantine’s government and were refused Roman rule. Beginning with the weakening of Roman Britain, the author chronicles the breakdown of the empire’s social, political and economic order and the re-emergence of British political, economic and social structure as well as a parallel development among the Germanic invaders. The roles of religion, disease, the military, the Irish and the Picts during the 4th through 7th centuries are examined. This study synthesizes advances in post–Roman studies since Leslie Alcock’s 1971 classic Arthur’s Britain.

The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom Volume 2 The Changing Constitution

The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom  Volume 2  The Changing Constitution
Author: Peter Cane,H. Kumarasingham
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 991
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781009277068

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The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
Author: Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 857
Release: 2019-04-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781107106765

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This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

Strathclyde and the Anglo Saxons in the Viking Age

Strathclyde and the Anglo Saxons in the Viking Age
Author: Tim Clarkson
Publsiher: Birlinn
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781907909252

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This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North Britons or 'Cumbrians', an ancient people whose kings ruled from a power-base at Govan on the western side of present-day Glasgow. In the tenth century, these kings extended their rule southward from Clydesdale to the southern shore of the Solway Firth, bringing their language and culture to a region that had been in English hands for more than two hundred years. They played a key role in many of the great political events of the time, whether leading their armies in battle or forging treaties to preserve a fragile peace. Their extensive realm, which was also known as 'Cumbria', was eventually conquered by the Scots, but is still remembered today in the name of an English county. How this county acquired the name of a long-vanished kingdom centred on the River Clyde is one of the topics covered in this book.It is part of a wider history that forms an important chapter in the story of how England and Scotland emerged from the early medieval period or 'Dark Ages' as the countries we know today.