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 | The Acts of Welsh Rulers, 1120–1283 (ISBN 0708318975)
This volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other documents issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282–3 that extinguished independent rule. It thereby makes more accessible than ever before a key body of source material for the study of medieval Wales during ‘the age of the princes’ – an era of struggles for power by native rulers both among themselves and with Marcher lords and the English crown.
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Price: £55.00
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The Medieval Castles of Wales (ISBN 9780708321805)
This fascinating new book presents visitors to the medieval castles of Wales with all they need to know about some of the most historic and captivating sites in Britain.
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Price: £12.99
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 | The March of Wales 1067-1300 (paperback) (ISBN 9780708321157)
By 1300, a Marcher region had been created between England and Wales, consisting of about forty castle-centred lordships extending along the Anglo-Welsh border and also across southern Wales. The March of Wales thus formed a highly distinctive part of the political geography of Britain for much of the Middle Ages. Expressions like 'the Welsh marches' are today used rather vaguely to refer to the Anglo-Welsh borders.
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Price: £17.99
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The March of Wales 1067-1300 (hardback) (ISBN 9780708321164)
By 1300, a Marcher region had been created between England and Wales, consisting of about forty castle-centred lordships extending along the Anglo-Welsh border and also across southern Wales. The March of Wales thus formed a highly distinctive part of the political geography of Britain for much of the Middle Ages. Expressions like 'the Welsh marches' are today used rather vaguely to refer to the Anglo-Welsh borders.
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Price: £60.00
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| | The Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey (ISBN 0708309070)
The fruit of a dozen years' work by Dr Una Rees, following her editing of the Shrewsbury Abbey Cartulary. Even more than her earlier work, the Haughmond Cartulary is a major contribution to monastic and social history and to the history of Wales, Shropshire and the Marches in the Middle Ages. `Haughmond was founded in the early 12th century and shortly afterwards came under the patronage of the FitzAlans (later Earls of Arundel). The Cartulary contains over 1,380 documents dating from c.1130 to 1480, few of which have previously been published. In addition to charters recording the gifts and purchases whereby the abbey's estates were built up, there are over 170 leases which provide considerable information on the administration of the estates and the general history of leasehold tenure.
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Price: £45.00
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Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales: The Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition (paper) (ISBN 9780708312872)
A study of sources from early medieval Wales, which offers new and exciting insights into the phenomenon of Celtic Christianity. This work examines the concept of Celtic Christianity and traces common Celtic features in early Welsh religious literature, including poetry, prose and hagiography. It adds significantly to our understanding of Celtic Christianity, and of those early Welsh texts, while making many of the latter available in English for the first time.
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Price: £19.99
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 | Gendering the Crusades (paperback) (ISBN 708316980)
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection provides both innovative readings of well-known texts and examinations of new source material, as well as discussing a wide range of subjects, from the medieval construction of gender to the military participation of women in the crusades. Other essays consider questions of masculinity, the role of female saints and religious figures in the crusades, and the relationship of crusaders to their families.
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Price: £17.99
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Gendering the Crusades (hardback) (ISBN 708317057)
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection provides both innovative readings of well-known texts and examinations of new source material, as well as discussing a wide range of subjects, from the medieval construction of gender to the military participation of women in the crusades. Other essays consider questions of masculinity, the role of female saints and religious figures in the crusades, and the relationship of crusaders to their families.
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Price: £45.00
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| | Gerald and his World (ISBN 0-7083-0969-0 )
Robert M. Morris
pp 28 1987 paperback
Gerald's own testimony is used extensively in this book to introduce various themes from medieval life, especially in relation to Wales. The book looks at twelfth-century Wales - its land and society, the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Third Crusade, the troubled reign of Henry II and the Welsh Church. Gerald himself was a vitally important figure in the story of the Welsh Church at this time.
`Both volumes have an attractive format and examine their subject-matter through the presentation of primary evidence, both written and pictorial. This strategy facilitates the skill-based approach to the teaching of History and furnishes the general reader with a variety of interesting information.' (Anglo-Welsh Review)
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Price: £4.99
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Gerald of Wales (ISBN 0-7083-0968-2 )
Robert M. Morris
pp 24 1987 paperback
The story of an ambitious Norman-Welsh priest who wrote, often angrily and always vividly, about his troubles and about the people and places he knew. His books provide the most detailed evidence and the shrewdest insights we have into twelfth century Wales, its social customs, its agriculture, its leading figures and its religious life.
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Price: £4.99
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 | History of Merioneth, Volume II: The Middle Ages (ISBN 070831709X)
This volume provides a study of the lands which were brought together to form the medieval county of Merioneth in 1284. A team of eminent scholars describes and analyses an extraordinarily rich and formative period in the history of the county from the early Welsh rulers to the end of the sixteenth century.
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Price: £75.00
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A History of Wales 1485 - 1660 (ISBN 0-7083-1137-7)
`Few periods of Welsh history have attracted more attention in schools and colleges than that covered by Mr Hugh Thomas's book. The events of that period have certainly had a decisive influence upon the development of modern Wales, but students and pupils wishing to acquaint themselves with the background have for long felt the need of a comprehensive basic text-book. Mr Thomas has now met this need, and this volume ...provides a sound survey not only of the political and religious history of the period, but also of its cultural, social and economic aspects...'(Welsh History Review)
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Price: £14.99
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| | List of Welsh Entries in the Memoranda Rolls 1282 - 1343 (ISBN 0-7083-0540-7 )
Edited with an introduction by Natalie Fryde
pp 134 1974 hardback
This book extends to the Exchequer class of the Mediaeval period the work already done by the Board of Celtic Studies in making the sources relating to the history of Wales in the Public Record Office more available.
`The debt to Mrs Fryde of all those concerned with the history of Wales in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is proportionately great, for she here lists over one thousand entries relating to the affairs of the Principality, extracted so that complementary information is available from both series of rolls. The Introduction gives a useful summary of the various kinds of information the records provide, as well as explaining their somewhat complicated technical arrangement . . . ' (Antiquaries Journal)
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Price: £16.99
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Living and Dining in Medieval Paris: The Household of a Fourteenth-Century Knight (ISBN 0-7083-1647-6)
A richly detailed account of the culinary world of fourteenth-century Paris. At the centre of this account lies the Ménagier de Paris, a medieval manuscript covering all aspects of food preparation and household skills, written by a well-to-do knight for his fifteen-year-old wife. Through her meticulous study of the manuscript, Nicole Crossley-Holland paints a vivid picture of life in the knight's household: his city residence with its walled vegetable and herb garden; his home farm which provided meat and dairy produce; the country estate where he trained sparrowhawks and hunted wild boar.
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Price: £17.99
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 | Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales (ISBN 0708314740)
J. Beverley Smith
This is the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1225-1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn but of the age in which he lived. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations.
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Price: £47.00
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Medieval Welsh Monasteries (ISBN 0-7083-0961-5 )
John W. Roberts. Translated by Gareth Williams
pp 24 1987 paperback
This book examines the nature of monastic life in medieval times and seeks to explore what kind of place a monastery was and how the religious houses developed in Wales. It does this by a close examination of the main Welsh abbeys, abundantly illustrated, and of the documentary evidence provided by the Rule of St. Benedict, the Welsh chronicles and the foundation charters of individual houses. It also looks at the monasteries as property holders and their eventual fate in Tudor times.
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Price: £3.99
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 | Medieval Women in their Communities (paperback) (ISBN 0708313698)
This book presents detailed studies of women as members of a whole range of different communities during the period between 1200 and 1500. The essays all consider women's historical experience to be distinct from men's, but they are not restricted to a single theoretical perspective or methodological approach.
In terms of regionality, women from the geographical areas which correspond roughly to modern Wales, England, France, Italy, and Germany are included; in terms of religious beliefs, Jewish and Christian faiths are covered; in terms of social and economic conditions, rich and poor, religious and secular, noblewomen and commoners are represented.
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Price: £17.99
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Medieval Women in their Communities (hardback) (ISBN 0-7083-1361-2)
Available in North America from Toronto University Press
This book presents detailed studies of women as members of a whole range of different communities during the period between 1200 and 1500. The essays all consider women's historical experience to be distinct from men's, but they are not restricted to a single theoretical perspective or methodological approach.
In terms of regionality, women from the geographical areas which correspond roughly to modern Wales, England, France, Italy, and Germany are included; in terms of religious beliefs, Jewish and Christian faiths are covered; in terms of social and economic conditions, rich and poor, religious and secular, noblewomen and commoners are represented.
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Price: £30.00
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| | National Redeemer: Owain Glyndwr in Welsh Tradition (ISBN 0-7083-1290-X)
Through focusing on one person, this book provides an account of how folklore and history shape each other. The author traces the development of Owain Glyndwr as a national redeemer in Welsh folklore, history, and literature. Glyndwr, who led the last major armed rebellion of the Welsh against the English at the beginning of the fifteenth century, was viewed in his own time as a redeemer-hero (the hero who will restore the nation to its former glory) and has since become a primary symbol of modern Welsh nationalism.
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Price: £17.99
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The Welsh and their Religion: Historical Essays (ISBN 0708310974)
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Price: £45.00
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 | The Welsh Church from Conquest to Reformation (ISBN 0708306519)
`Those who read Professor Williams' work will find the masterful synthesis of a scholar. Others have attempted to put in written form the religious history of this period, but to Professor Williams must go the honour of having done so in an adequate and scholarly fashion. It deserves a wide audience . . . ' (Speculum)
` . . . a work of outstanding scholarship, covering with sympathy and insight a subject never before satisfactorily treated. His style is informal and readable. The book, which will long remain standard, should interest ecclesiastical, as well as Welsh, historians . . . ' (American Historical Association)
Available in North America from Arkansas University Press.
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Price: £35.00
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The Welsh King and His Court (ISBN 708316271)
The Laws of Court in the medieval Welsh lawbooks provide some of the most interesting evidence for the structure and operation of a royal court in early medieval Europe. These are richly detailed but also problematic texts, and their correct interpretation is the central concern of this book.
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Price: £45.00
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 | Welsh Military Institutions, 633-1283 (ISBN 0708318363)
The first book to attempt a serious study of medieval Welsh military organization, strategy, tactics and conduct in war.
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Price: £30.00
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