Power and Identity in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies
Contributors: Huw Pryce (Editor); John Watts (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780199285464
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Historiography; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; Europe; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Wales; Continental European; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Literary; Great Britain; History; Politics and government; Power (Social sciences); To 1485; To 1500
Description: Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range across ten centuries, looking at a variety of key topics. Issues explored range from the historical representations of peoples and the changing patterns of power and authority, to the notions of 'core' and 'periphery' and the relationship between local conditions and international movements. The political impact of words and ideas, and the parallels between developments in Wales and those elsewhere in Britain, Ireland and Europe are also discussed. Appreciations of Rees Davies, a bibliography of his works, and Davies' own farewell speech to the History Faculty at the University of Oxford complete this outstanding tribute to a much-missed scholar. - Publisher.