The chronicles of medieval Wales and the March
Subtitle: new contexts, studies, and texts
By: edited by Ben Guy, Georgia Henley, Owain Wyn Jones, and Rebecca Thomas
Series: Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe -- volume 31; Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe -- v. 31.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9782503583495
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Sources; History
Description: This book offers a collection of new studies on the chronicles of medieval Wales and the March, supported by synoptic pieces placing the tradition of chronicle writing in Wales within the context of historical writing on a broader scale. The volume is accompanied by five editions and translations of little-known texts written in Latin and Medieval Welsh.00The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the 'Annales Cambriae' and 'Brut y Tywysogyon' families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbours for control over Wales.00Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J.E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes, and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions, and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice.