Wales and the Britons, 350-1064

Thomas Charles-Edwards was Jesus Professor of Celtic and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford from 1997 until 2011. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

• Introduction: The Lands of the Britons ; A. AFTER ROME ; 1. Britain, 350-550 ; 2. The Britons and their Languages ; 3. Inscriptions ; 4. The Britons and the Irish, 350-800 ; 5. From Pelagius to Gildas ; 6. Rome and the Britons, 400-664 ; B. EARLY WELSH SOCIETY ; 7. Charters and Laws ; 8. Lords, Food-Renders, and Peasants ; 9. Kinship and Status ; 10. Kingship ; C. THE BRITONS AND THE ENGLISH, 550-1064 ; 11. The Britons and the Northumbrians, 547-685: The Evidence ; 12. The Britons, Northumbria, and the rise of Mercia, 550-685 ; 13. The Britons and their neighbours under the Mercian hegemony ; 14. Two Ninth-Century Writers ; 15. The Transformation of the Ninth Century ; 16. The Britons and the Empire of Britain ; 17. Wales, 950-1064 ; D. THE WELSH CHURCH AND CULTURE ; 18. The organization of the Welsh Church, 768-106 ; 19. Learning ; 20. Poets and Story-Tellers ; Bibliography ; Index

Thomas Charles-Edwards has written a book that will be essential reading, and not only for those concerned with the history of Wales, for many decades to come.