From Medieval to Modern Wales

R. R. Davies is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls College, Oxford. Geraint H. Jenkins is Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and Chairman and Research Director of the Board of Celtic Studies.

• 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 historyIt 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.'