Geoffrey Wales
Author | : Hilary Chapman |
Publisher | : Oak Knoll Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hilary Chapman |
Publisher | : Oak Knoll Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karen Jankulak |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2010-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0708323146 |
Geoffrey of Monmouth, a twelfth-century cleric, was the first person to compose a detailed and continuous history of Britain from its origins to the domination of the Anglo-Saxons. His writings were enormously popular throughout the western European world, and he is justly credited with bringing 'The Matter of Britain' (including, most notably, the figure of Arthur) to a much wider audience. The vast popularity of this material has persisted to the present day, mainly but not solely in the interest shown in 'King Arthur'. This book illustrates the close ties between Geoffrey's notion of British and Arthurian society and other materials from medieval Wales and Ireland.
Author | : Andrew Galloway |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521856892 |
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
Author | : Danna R Messer |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1526729326 |
The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joans is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joans place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as one a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.
Author | : Scott Lloyd |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786830264 |
This new book examines all of the available source materials, dating from the ninth century to the present, that have associated Arthur with sites in Wales. The material ranges from Medieval Latin chronicles, French romances and Welsh poetry through to the earliest printed works, antiquarian notebooks, periodicals, academic publications and finally books, written by both amateur and professional historians alike, in the modern period that have made various claims about the identity of Arthur and his kingdom. All of these sources are here placed in context, with the issues of dating and authorship discussed, and their impact and influence assessed. This book also contains a gazetteer of all the sites mentioned, including those yet to be identified, and traces their Arthurian associations back to their original source.