The acts of Welsh rulers, 1120-1283
By: edited by Huw Pryce ; with the assistance of Charles Insley.
Contributors: Pryce, Huw.; Insley, Charles, Dr.; University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies. History and Law Committee.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cardiff
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 902
Subjects: Law -- Wales -- History -- Sources.; Letters patent -- Wales.; Wales -- Charters, grants, privileges.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "This volume provides the first comprehensive collection of charters, letters and other written acts issued by native rulers of Wales from the early twelfth century to the Edwardian conquest of 1282-3. It thereby makes more accessible than ever before a key body of source material for the study of medieval Wales during 'the age of the princes' - an era of struggles for power by native rulers both among themselves and with Marcher lords and the English crown. The documents assembled and analysed here illuminate a wide range of topics including political developments and concepts of authority in Wales, Anglo-Welsh relations, contracts with kings of France and the papacy, benefactions to religious houses, dispute settlement and uses of the written word in Welsh society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "The edition prints the surviving texts, almost all in Latin, of 444 documents, together with English summaries and explanatory notes, and also contains notices of a further 174 documents whose full texts have been lost." - Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]-xlv) and indexes.
"Published on behalf of the History and Law Committee of the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies."