The chronicles of medieval Wales and the March : new contexts, studies and texts /
The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern ac...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2020]
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| Series: | Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ;
31. |
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| Summary: | The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the 'Annales Cambriae' and 'Brut y Tywysogyon' families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbors for control over Wales. Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J.E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice. |
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| Item Description: | "Three conferences have also be organized, at which some of the chapters in the present volume were first aired : these took place at Bangor University in 2014 (Chapter 5), at the University of Glasgow in 2015 (Chapter 10), and at the University of Cambridge in 2016 (Chapters 4, 8, 9 and 11)"--page xiv. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 455 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 2503583490 9782503583495 |