Wales and the Britons, 350-1064

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-821731-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1374 g

This, the first volume in the History of Wales, provides a detailed history of Wales in the period in which it was created out of the remnants of Roman Britain. It thus begins in the fourth century, with accelerating attacks from external forces, and ends shortly before the Norman Conquest of England.

The narrative history is interwoven with chapters on the principal sources, the social history of Wales, the Church, the early history of the Welsh language, and its early literature, both in Welsh and in Latin. In the fourth century contemporaries knew of the Britons but not of Wales in the modern sense. Charles-Edwards, therefore, includes the history of the other Britons when it helps to illuminate the history of what we now know as Wales. Although an early form of the name Wales existed, it was a word in the Germanic languages, including English, and meant inhabitants of the former Roman Empire; it therefore covered the Gallo-Romans of what we know as France as well as the Britons.

Zielgruppe

Students and historians interested in Britain between the Romans and the Normans; readers interested in medieval Wales

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charles-Edwards, T. M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Charles-Edwards, T. M.
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.