Urban Culture In Medieval Wales

Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708323526

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Urban Culture in Medieval Wales by Helen Fulton Pdf

This collection of twelve essays describes aspects of town life in medieval Wales, from the way people lived and worked to how they spent their leisure time. Drawing on evidence from historical records, archaeology and literature, twelve leading scholars outline the diversity of town life and urban identity in medieval Wales. While urban histories of Wales have charted the economic growth of towns in post-Norman Wales, much less has been written about the nature of urban culture in Wales. This book fills in some of the gaps about how people lived in towns and the kinds of cultural experience which helped to construct a Welsh urban identity.

Author : Andrew Brown,Jan Dumolyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503577431

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Medieval Urban Culture by Andrew Brown,Jan Dumolyn Pdf

Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847212

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Medieval Welsh Literature and Its European Contexts by Victoria Flood Pdf

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.

Author : David Stephenson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786833877

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Medieval Wales c.1050-1332 by David Stephenson Pdf

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.

Author : Sparky Booker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107128088

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Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland by Sparky Booker Pdf

Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the 'four obedient shires' and how this shaped English identity.

Author : R. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230614932

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Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales by R. Kennedy Pdf

The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty - a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and political cultures. But the profound consequences of this first colonial adventure on the development of medieval English culture have been disregarded. In setting English figurations of Wales against the contrasted representations of the Welsh language tradition, this volume seeks to reverse this neglect, insisting on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales for any understanding of the literary cultures of medieval England and medieval Britain.

Author : Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107106765

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The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature by Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton Pdf

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

Author : Matthew Frank Stevens
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786834850

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The Economy of Medieval Wales, 1067-1536 by Matthew Frank Stevens Pdf

This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key themes include the evolution of the agrarian economy; the foundation and growth of towns; the adoption of a money economy; English colonisation and economic exploitation; the collapse of Welsh social structures and rise of economic individualism; the disastrous effect of the Glyndŵr rebellion; and, ultimately, the alignment of the Welsh economy to the English economy. Comprising four chapters, a narrative history is presented of the economic history of Wales, 1067–1536, and the final chapter tests the applicability in a Welsh context of the main theoretical frameworks that have been developed to explain long-term economic and social change in medieval Britain and Europe.

Author : Catherine A M Clarke
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708323939

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Mapping the Medieval City by Catherine A M Clarke Pdf

This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city.

Author : Catherine A.M. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315536514

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Power, Identity and Miracles on a Medieval Frontier by Catherine A.M. Clarke Pdf

A thriving port, a frontier base for the lords of Gower and a multi-cultural urban community, the south Wales town of Swansea was an important centre in the Middle Ages, at a nexus of multiple identities, cultural practices and configurations of power. As the principal town of the Marcher lordship of Gower and seat of the Marcher lord's rule, Swansea was a site of contested authority, colonial control and complex interactions – and collisions – between different cultures, languages and traditions. Swansea also features in the miracle collection prepared for the canonisation of Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1282), as the setting for the intriguing case of the hanging and strange revival of the Welsh rebel, William Cragh. Taking medieval Swansea and Wales as its starting point, this volume brings into focus questions of place, power, identity and belief, bringing together inter-disciplinary perspectives which span History, Literary Studies and Geography / Archaeology, and engaging with current debates in the fields of medieval frontier studies, urban history, manuscript studies and hagiography. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.

Author : Kathryn Hurlock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137430991

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Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 by Kathryn Hurlock Pdf

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europe—from the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies, Kathryn Hurlock peels back the historical and religious layers of these holy pilgrimage sites to explore what motivated pilgrims to visit these particular sites, how family and locality drove the development of certain destinations, what pilgrims expected from their experience, how they engaged with pilgrimage in person or virtually, and what they saw, smelled, heard, and did when they reached their ultimate goal.

Author : Sara M. Pons-Sanz,Louise Sylvester
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031309472

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Medieval English in a Multilingual Context by Sara M. Pons-Sanz,Louise Sylvester Pdf

This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in (sub)disciplines of linguistics including historical linguistics, onomastics, lexicology and lexicography, sociolinguistics, code-switching and language contact, and also includes contributions from literary and socio-cultural studies, material culture, and palaeography. The authors focus on the variety of languages in use in medieval Britain, including English, Old Norse, Norn, Dutch, Welsh, French, and Latin, making the argument that understanding the impact of medieval multilingualism on the development of English requires multidisiplinarity and the bringing together of different frameworks in linguistics and cultural studies to achieve more nuanced answers. This book will be of interest to academics and students of historical linguistics and medieval textual culture.

Author : Eleanor J. Giraud,J. Cornelia Linde
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004446229

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A Companion to the English Dominican Province by Eleanor J. Giraud,J. Cornelia Linde Pdf

An account of Dominican activities in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales from their arrival in 1221 until their dissolution at the Reformation

Author : Richard Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009164337

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The Dominicans in the British Isles and Beyond by Richard Finn Pdf

Eight centuries have passed since the Dominicans first arrived in England. This book tells their fascinating story. It discusses their role in the medieval British Church; their fate after the Reformation; their eventual re-establishment in Britain; their expansion into the Caribbean and South Africa; and their adaptation after Vatican II.

Author : Patricia Skinner
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786831903

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The Welsh and the Medieval World by Patricia Skinner Pdf

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages? What did they do, what did they take with them in their baggage, and what did they bring back? This book seeks for the first time to capture the medieval Welsh on the move, and core to its purpose is the exploration of identity within and outside the Welsh territories – particularly since ‘Welsh’ may have become a fluid term to describe a stranger, often pejoratively. The contributors also seek to explore the nature of ‘Welsh history’ as a discipline. How can a consideration of the Welsh abroad draw upon wider paradigms of nationhood, diaspora and colonisation; economic migration; gender relations; and the pursuit of educational, religious and cultural opportunities? Is there anything specifically ‘Welsh’ about the experiences of medieval migrants and correspondents? And what can the medieval experience of Welsh people exploring the then known world contribute to the longer-term history of emigration and exchange? Examining archaeological, historical and literary evidence together, this book enables a better understanding of the ways in which people from Wales interacted with and understood their near and distant neighbours.