• Introduction: The problem of medieval Powys: Historiography and sources.The re-emergence of PowysThe age of eminence: Madog ap Maredudd.Crisis and renewal: 1160 and its aftermathThe ascendancy and fall of GwenwynwynEclipse: the supremacy of GwyneddSurvival: the case of Gruffudd, lord of BromfieldSurvival: the case of Gruffudd ap GwenwynwynThe persistence of Powysian lordship: Owain ap Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn and the descendants of Madog ap MareduddPowysian Polities I: aspects of governancePowysian Polities II: secular dynamics; fragmentation and integrationPowysian Polities III: the ecclesiastical dimensionSome Powysian perspectives: fears and aspirationsAppendix I. The Combermere charters: a new analysis and some implicationsAppendix II. Two alleged charters of Elise ap MadogAppendix III. 'Powys Fadog' and 'Powys Wenwynwyn'Appendix IV. The date of composition of Breuddwyd RhonabwySelect Bibliography

A very substantial achievement....Its reputation will surely be that of a highly regarded classic work necessarily resorted to by all those seriously interested in the history and culture of medieval Powys and of medieval Wales in general.

• Introduction: The problem of medieval Powys: Historiography and sources.The re-emergence of PowysThe age of eminence: Madog ap Maredudd.Crisis and renewal: 1160 and its aftermathThe ascendancy and fall of GwenwynwynEclipse: the supremacy of GwyneddSurvival: the case of Gruffudd, lord of BromfieldSurvival: the case of Gruffudd ap GwenwynwynThe persistence of Powysian lordship: Owain ap Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn and the descendants of Madog ap MareduddPowysian Polities I: aspects of governancePowysian Polities II: secular dynamics; fragmentation and integrationPowysian Polities III: the ecclesiastical dimensionSome Powysian perspectives: fears and aspirationsAppendix I. The Combermere charters: a new analysis and some implicationsAppendix II. Two alleged charters of Elise ap MadogAppendix III. 'Powys Fadog' and 'Powys Wenwynwyn'Appendix IV. The date of composition of Breuddwyd RhonabwySelect Bibliography

A very substantial achievement....Its reputation will surely be that of a highly regarded classic work necessarily resorted to by all those seriously interested in the history and culture of medieval Powys and of medieval Wales in general.

• Introduction: The problem of medieval Powys: Historiography and sources.The re-emergence of PowysThe age of eminence: Madog ap Maredudd.Crisis and renewal: 1160 and its aftermathThe ascendancy and fall of GwenwynwynEclipse: the supremacy of GwyneddSurvival: the case of Gruffudd, lord of BromfieldSurvival: the case of Gruffudd ap GwenwynwynThe persistence of Powysian lordship: Owain ap Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn and the descendants of Madog ap MareduddPowysian Polities I: aspects of governancePowysian Polities II: secular dynamics; fragmentation and integrationPowysian Polities III: the ecclesiastical dimensionSome Powysian perspectives: fears and aspirationsAppendix I. The Combermere charters: a new analysis and some implicationsAppendix II. Two alleged charters of Elise ap MadogAppendix III. 'Powys Fadog' and 'Powys Wenwynwyn'Appendix IV. The date of composition of Breuddwyd RhonabwySelect Bibliography

A very substantial achievement....Its reputation will surely be that of a highly regarded classic work necessarily resorted to by all those seriously interested in the history and culture of medieval Powys and of medieval Wales in general.