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Author : Janet Meisel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Barons of the Welsh Frontier written by Janet Meisel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Power
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521571723
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries written by Daniel Power and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century borderlands of the duchy of Normandy formed the cockpit for dynastic rivalries between the kings of England and France. This 2004 book examines how the political divisions between Normandy and its neighbours shaped the communities of the Norman frontier. It traces the region's history from the conquest of Normandy in 1106 by Henry I of England, to the duchy's annexation in 1204 by the king of France, Philip Augustus, and its incorporation into the Capetian kingdom. It explores the impact of the frontier upon princely and ecclesiastical power structures, customary laws, and noble strategies such as marriage, patronage and suretyship. Particular attention is paid to the lesser aristocracy as well as the better known magnates, and an extended appendix reconstructs the genealogies of thirty-three prominent frontier lineages. The book sheds light upon the twelfth-century French aristocracy, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval political frontiers.
Author : Patricia Skinner
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831910
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Welsh and the Medieval World written by Patricia Skinner and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry point into Welsh migration by experts: many of the contributors have longer studies that students can then read; Multi-disciplinary: shows how historical and literary sources can be read together, includes new archaeological data Showcases new work by a new generation of Welsh historians.
Author : Max Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139486896
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Medieval March of Wales written by Max Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, provide a paradigm for the creation of the March. He reassesses the role of William the Conqueror's tenurial settlement in the making of the March and sheds new light on the ways in which seigneurial administrations worked in a cross-cultural context. Finally, he explains why, from c.1300, the March of Wales included the conquest territories in south Wales as well as the highly autonomous border lordships. This book makes a significant and original contribution to frontier studies, investigating both the creation and the changing perception of a medieval borderland.
Author : Alexander L. Kaufman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485124
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book British Outlaws of Literature and History written by Alexander L. Kaufman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods. Divided into three parts, the text examines the historical records of real outlawed men and women and the representation of Jews in medieval Britain as possible outlaws, outlaws associated specifically with Wales, and the popular figure of Robin Hood and the context of the late medieval poems and plays that feature him as a prominent figure.
Author : Georgia Henley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192670271
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales written by Georgia Henley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought into the broader stream of political consciousness by major baronial families from the March (the borderlands between England and Wales), this inventive history generated a new brand of literature interested in succession, land rights, and the origins of imperial power, as imagined by Geoffrey of Monmouth. These marcher families leveraged their ancestral, political, and ideological ties to Wales in order to strengthen their political power, both regionally and nationally, through the patronage of historical and genealogical texts that reimagined the Welsh past on their terms. In doing so, they brought ideas of Welsh history to a wider audience than previously recognized and came to have a profound effect on late medieval thought about empire, monarchy, and succession.
Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844478
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England written by Victoria Flood and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite.
Author : R. R. Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198208785
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Age of Conquest written by R. R. Davies and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study examines the period when Wales struggled to retain its independence and identity in the face of Anglo-Norman conquest and subsequent English rule. Professor Davies explores the nature of power and conflict within native Welsh society as well as the transformation of Wales under the English crown. An account of the last major revolt under Owain Glyn Dwr forms the culmination of this excellent work.
Author : Kathryn Hurlock
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783162627
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Wales and the Crusades written by Kathryn Hurlock and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study, focussing on the impact of the crusading movement in medieval Wales, considers both the enthusiasm of the Welsh and those living in Wales and its borders for the crusades, as well as the domestic impact of the movement on warfare, literature, politics and patronage. The location of Wales on the periphery of mainstream Europe, and its perceived status as religiously and culturally underdeveloped did not make it the most obvious candidate for crusading involvement, but this study demonstrates that both native and settler took part in the crusades, supported the military orders, and wrote about events in the Holy Land. Efforts were made to recruit the Welsh in 1188, suggesting contemporary appreciation for Welsh fighting skills, even though crusaders from Wales have been overlooked in modern studies. By looking at patterns of participation this study shows how domestic warfare influenced the desire and willingness to join the crusade, and the effect of such absences on the properties of those who did go. The difference between north and south Wales, Marcher lord and native prince, Flemish noble and minor landholder are considered to show how crusading affected a broad spread of society. Finally, the political role of crusading participation as a way to remove potential troublemakers and cement English control over Wales is considered as the close of the peak years of crusading coincided with the final conquest of Wales in 1282.
Author : Alexis Kellner Becker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844338
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book New Medieval Literatures 16 written by Alexis Kellner Becker and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 Mixed Feelings in the Middle English Charlemagne Romances: Emotional Reconfiguration and the Failures of Crusading Practices in the Otuel Texts -- 7 Circularity and Linearity: The Idea of the Lyric and the Idea of the Book in the Cent Ballades of Jean le Seneschal -- 8 'What shal I calle thee? What is thy name?': Thomas Hoccleve and the Making of 'Chaucer'
Author : Stephen D. Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277513
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Norman Studies XLV written by Stephen D. Church and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A series which is a model of its kind" Edmund King This year's volume is made up of articles that were presented at the conference in Bonn, held under the auspices of the University. In this volume, Alheydis Plassmann, the Allen Brown Memorial lecturer, analyses how two contemporary commentators reported the events of their day, the contest between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror as they struggled for supremacy in England and Normandy during the 1140s. The Marjorie Chibnall Essay prize winner, Laura Bailey, examines the geographical spaces occupied by the exile in The Gesta Herewardi and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Andrea Stieldorf compares the seals and the coins of Germany/Lotharingia in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries with those made in England, exploring the ideas embedded in the iconography of the two connected visual sources. Domesday Book forms the focus of two important new studies, one by Rory Naismith looking at the moneyers to be found in Domesday, adding substantially to the information gained on this important group of artisans, and one by Chelsea Shields-Más on the sheriffs of Edward the Confessor, giving us new insights into the key officials in the royal administration. Elisabeth van Houts examines the life of Empress Matilda before she returned to her father's court in 1125 throwing new light on Matilda's "German" years, while Laura Wangerin looks at how tenth-century Ottonian women used communication to further their political goals. Steven Vanderputten takes the challenge of thinking about religious change at the turn of the Millennium through the lens of the Life of John, Abbot of Gorze Abbey, by John of Saint-Arnoul. Benjamin Pohl looks at the role of the abbot in prompting monk-historians to embark on their historiographical tasks through the work of one individual chronicler, Andreas of Marchiennes, responsible for writing, at his abbot's behest, the Chronicon Marchianense. And Megan Welton explores the implications of honorific titles through an examination of the title dux as it was attached to two tenth-century women rulers. The volume offers a wide range of insightful essays which add considerably to our understanding of the central middle ages.
Author : Sarah Woodbury
Publisher : The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book This Small Corner of Time: The After Cilmeri Series Companion written by Sarah Woodbury and published by The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open a door to the world of the After Cilmeri series! With chapters on historical context, the Welsh language, characters, places in the books, and the writing process, and including hundreds of photographs, maps, timelines, and family trees, this guide highlights the characters, places, and worlds brought to life by the series' first fifteen novels. Complete series reading order: Daughter of Time, Footsteps in Time, Winds of Time, Prince of Time, Crossroads in Time, Children of Time, Exiles in Time, Castaways in Time, Ashes of Time, Warden of Time, Guardians of Time, Masters of Time, Outpost in Time, Shades of Time, Champions of Time, Refuge in Time, Outcasts in Time, Hidden in Time. Also, This Small Corner of Time: The After Cilmeri Series Companion.
Author : Lynn H. Nelson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292781075
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Normans in South Wales, 1070–1171 written by Lynn H. Nelson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frontier has been called "an area inviting entrance." For the Norman invaders of England the Welsh peninsula was such an area. Fertile forested lowlands invited agricultural occupation; a fierce but primitive and disunited native population was scarcely a formidable deterrent. In The Normans in South Wales, Lynn H. Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the century during which the Normans accomplished this occupation. Skillfully he combines facts and statistics gleaned from a variety of original sources—The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Domesday Book, Church records, charters of the kings and of the marcher lords, and more imaginative literary sources such as the chanson de geste and the frontier epic—to give a vivid picture of a century of strife. He describes the fluctuating conflict between Norman invaders in the lowlands and Welsh tribesmen in the highlands; the hard struggle of medieval frontiersmen to take from the new land a profit commensurate with their labors; the development of a Cambro-Norman society distinct and quite different from the Anglo-Norman culture which engendered it; and the attempt of the frontiersman to prevent the Anglo-Norman authorities from taking control of the lands he had won. The turbulent Welsh tribes provided an ever present harassment along the frontier, and Nelson begins his presentation with an account of the failure of the Saxons to control them. He examines the methods adopted by William the Conqueror to cope with the problem—the creation of the great marcher lordships and the subsequent problems in controlling these lordships—and the weakness of some Anglo-Norman kings and the strength of others. By 1171 the conquest of the Welsh frontier was complete; but as Nelson points out, this conquest was strangely limited. The frontier, which extended throughout the lowlands of Wales, stopped at the 600-foot contour line in the mountains. In his final chapter Nelson speculates upon the curious fact that large areas of seemingly inviting moorlands lying above this line remained closed to the Cambro-Norman, and his speculations lead him to some interesting inferences about the nature of the frontier's influence upon the civilization which moves in to occupy it.
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147290611X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Whitaker's Shorts 2014: Governance written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 146th edition Whitaker's Almanack is the definitive reference guide containing a comprehensive overview of every aspect of UK infrastructure and an excellent introduction to world politics. Available only as ebooks, Whitaker's Shorts are selected themed sections from Whitaker's Almanack 2014: portable and perfect for those with specific interests within the print edition. Whitaker's Shorts 2014: Governance contains essential information on the UK's European, national and local government infrastructure; a full listing of MPs, government departments and public bodies; plus Parliament: A Year in Review, covering all the key debates in the House of Commons over the 2012-13 parliamentary year.
Author : K. L. Maund
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851155333
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century written by K. L. Maund and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh century was a time of political change throughout the British Isles, and especially so in Wales. Dr Maund examines the relationship of Wales to England and Ireland, and the ways in which Wales was affected by the political activities of these neighbours, setting this in the context of Welsh internal events and policies. She shows the rule of Gruffud ap Llywelyn to have been a turning point for Wales and also for English and Hiberno-Scandinavian politics, and demonstrates that the apparent political chaos was in fact a fascinating network of political activity and growth.
Author : Kari Maund
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752473921
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Welsh Kings written by Kari Maund and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rules in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety of independent kingdoms with varying degrees of power, influence and stability, each ruled by proud and obdurate lineages. In this period a 'Kingdom of Wales' never existed, but the more powerful leaders, like Rhodri Mawr ('the Great'), Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, sought to extend their rule over the entire country. The author produces revealing pictures of the leading Welsh kings and princes of the day and explores both their contribution to Welsh history and their impact on the wider world. They were, of necessity, warriors, living in a violent political world and requiring ruthless skills to even begin to rule in Wales. Yet they showed wider vision, political acumen tna statesmanship, and were patrons of the arts and the church. The history of their contact with their neighbours, allies and rivals is examined - Anglo-Saxons, Irish, Vikings, and Anglo-Normans - thereby setting Welsh institutions within their wider historical context. This work revives the memory of the native leaders of the country from a time before the title 'Prince of Wales' became an honorary trinket in the gift of a foreign ruler. These men are restored to their rightful place amongst the past rulers of the island of Britain.
Author : Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781843833413
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the history of England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. Within the broad field of cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature, the writing of history and ecclesiastical architecture.
