
Power and Identity in the Middle Ages
Essays in Memory of Rees Davies
Oxford University Press
Published on 12. July 2007
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-19-928546-4 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
[a] rich and varied anthology. * Early Medieval Europe * a worthy memorial to one of the most gifted historians ever produced * A. D. CARR Merioneth Historical And Record Society * This is historical scholarship at its best. * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
4 maps and 1 frontispiece
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
611 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928546-4 (9780199285464)
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Persons
Editor
Professor of Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor
Fellow and Tutor in History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Content
Introduction ; Appreciations ; Secular Power and Authority in the Middle Ages ; Heartland and Border: the Mental and Physical Geography of Medieval Europe ; Welsh Rulers and European Change, c.1100-1282 ; Bede and the Unchosen Race ; The Early Middle Ages and Spanish Identity ; Normanizing the English Invaders of Ireland ; Lordship and Society in Twelfth-Century Clydesdale ; Lordship and Liberties in Ireland and Wales, c.1170-c.1360 ; 'Distinction and Diversity': the Common Lawyers and the Law of Wales ; Lordship in the British Isles, c.1320-c.1360: the Ebb-Tide of the English Empire? ; The Charterhouse of Cadzand and the Serendipities of Empire ; On the Hospitality of the Welsh: a Comparative View ; Cheshire and Wales ; Crossing the Frontiers of the English Realm in the Fifteenth Century ; Identity and Morality: Power and Politics during the Wars of the Roses ; Public or Plebs: the Changing Meaning of 'the Commons', 1381-1549 ; A Farewell Speech ; A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Rees Davies