From Medieval to Modern Wales

Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths

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This volume of historical essays is a collective tribute, on behalf of the whole community of the historians of Wales, to Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths who, on behalf of the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, have edited The Welsh History Review / Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru for the better part of forty years, during which the academic study of the history of Wales has come of age. Over the past two generations The Welsh History Review has played a vital role in the transformation of the history of Wales as a rigorous scholarly subject. The volume contains an appreciation of the contribution of the two editors to the shaping of Welsh historiography by Glanmor Williams (the founding father of The Welsh History Review) and Ieuan Gwynedd Jones. This is followed by fifteen essays written by a team of leading Welsh scholars whose contribution reflect the chronological range of The Welsh History Review and the ecumenical eclecticism which has been the hallmark of the journal. The essays deal with the evolution of Welsh society from the medieval period to the twentieth century and cover a range of topics, including ethnic identity, architectural patterns, social mobility, church and dissent, Welsh mission fields, and modern nationality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-03-17
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt798 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagUniversity of Wales Press
ISBN9780708318812

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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.

'...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.