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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The history of Wales
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History of Wales.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This it a detailed history of the Welsh from Late-Roman Britain to the eve of the Norman Conquest. It integrates the history of religion, language, and literature with the history of events. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Boxes""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Tables""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Lands of the Britons""; ""1. The North""; ""2. Wales""; ""3. South-West Britain and Brittany""; ""4. Chronology""; ""PART I. AFTER ROME""; ""1. Britain, 350�550""; ""1. The �barbarian conspiracy� of 367 and its context""; ""2. Magnus Maximus and Britain""; ""3. Constantine III""; ""4. The English settlements and conquests""; ""5. The origins of Brittany""; ""2. The Britons and their Languages"" |
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""1. British 400�700""""2. Welsh, the other Brittonic languages, British Latin, and Irish in Britain""; ""3. Inscriptions""; ""1. Letterforms: their construction and typology""; ""2. Dating""; ""3. North Britain between the Forth and the Tyne and also the Isle of Man""; ""4. Gwynedd""; ""5. South Wales: Dyfed, Brycheiniog, and Gwent""; ""6. South-west Britain and Brittany""; ""4. The Britons and the Irish, 350�800""; ""1. Irish raids and settlements in Britain""; ""2. The beginnings of Irish Christianity""; ""3. The sixth century and the shift of gravity""; ""4. Ehnic consolidation"" |
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""5. From Pelagius to Gildas""""1. Pelagius""; ""2. Faustus of Riez""; ""3. Gildas""; ""6. Rome and the Britons, 400�664""; ""1. Material culture""; ""2. Britons: Romans or barbarians?""; ""3. The sixth century""; ""4. The seventh century""; ""PART II. EARLY WELSH SOCIETY""; ""7. Charters and Laws""; ""1. The Book of Llandaff""; ""2. The significance of the doublets""; ""3. The Law of Hywel Dda""; ""Appendix. The Llancarfan Charters""; ""8. Lords, Food-Renders, and Peasants""; ""1. Unciae and modii: food-renders and estates""; ""2. The rural landscape""; ""9. Kinship and Status"" |
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""1. The general character of early Welsh kinship""""2. The evidence of the charters""; ""3. Heirs and hereditarii""; ""10. Kingship""; ""1. The inheritance from Roman Britain""; ""2. The native element in post-Roman British kingship""; ""Appendix: Cyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd ei Chwaer""; ""PART III. THE BRITONS AND THE ENGLISH, 550�1064""; ""11. The Britons and the Northumbrians, 547�685: The Evidence""; ""1. The Annales Cambriae, the Chronicle of Ireland, and the Historia Brittonum""; ""2. The Harleian Genealogies""; ""3. Early Welsh poetry: The Book of Aneirin"" |
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""4. Early Welsh poetry: Taliesin""""12. The Britons, the Northumbrians, and the Rise of Mercia, 550�685""; ""1. The origins of Northumbria""; ""2. Mercians, Northumbrians, and the borderlands of Wales""; ""3. The Church and relations between the Britons and the English""; ""13. The Britons and their Neighbours under the Mercian Hegemony, 685�825""; ""1. The Welsh and the rise of Mercia""; ""2. The Pillar of Eliseg""; ""3. Offa�s Dyke""; ""4. Two views of relations between Mercia and Wales""; ""5. The West Saxons and the Westwalas""; ""6. The northern Britons and their neighbours"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wales -- History -- To 1063.
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Wales. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1063 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Charles-Edwards, T.M. Wales and the Britons, 350-1064. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780198217312 (OCoLC)822992237 |
| ISBN |
9780191632082 (electronic book) |
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0191632082 (electronic book) |
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9781283919142 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283919141 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780198217312 |
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0198217315 |
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