From Medieval to Modern Wales
Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths
Editor(s) R. R. Davies,Geraint H. Jenkins
Language: English
Genre(s): Welsh Interest
- March 2004 · 256 pages ·234x156mm
- · Hardback - 9780708318812
About The Book
Endorsements
'...a team of leading Welsh scholars' have by their combined efforts created a volume which is as wide-ranging as it is vibrant, and which represents an important and much appreciated addition to the existing corpus of scholarly research in the field of Welsh history...It is surely fair to say that what this volume achieves above everything else is to put Wales into context, both culturally and geographically. This collection of essays is an invaluable contribution to current scholarship.' New Welsh Review.
Contents
The Castor and Pollux of Welsh History; Ieuan Gwynedd Jones and Glanmor Williams, Modern Nationality and the Medieval Past - The Wales of John Edward Lloyd; Huw Pryce, Inside the Tent Looking out - The Medieval welsh World-View; A. D. Carr, The Identity of 'Wales' in the Thirteenth Century; R. R. Davies, A View from an Ecclesiastical Court - Mobility and Marriage in a Border Society at the End of the Middle Ages; Llinos Beverley Smith, The Interpretation of Late Medieval Houses in Wales; Richard Suggett, Wales and Hamburg - The Problems of a Younger Son; J. Gwynfor Jones, A 'Poor Benighted Church'? Church and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Wales; Eryn M. White, Was there a Welsh Enlightenment?; R. J. W. Evans, A Private Space - Autobiography and Individuality in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Wales; Prys Morgan, 'A Very Horrid Affair' - Sedition and Unitarianism in the Age of Revolutions; Geraint H. Jenkins, A Tolerant Nation? Anti-Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Wales; Paul O'Leary, 'A Nation in a Nutshell' - The Swansea Disestablishment Demonstration of 1912 and the Political Culture of Edwardian Wales; Neil Evans, Margaret Wynne Nevinson - Gender and National Identity in the Early Twentieth Century; Angela V. John, 'Conservative Bloom on Socialism's Compost Heap' - Working-Class Home Ownership in South Wales, c.1890-1939; Steven Thompson, Gardens of Eden - Welsh Missionaries in British India; Aled Jones.