Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0199285462 ISBN 13: 9780199285464

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

[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)

Contenuti

• Introduction
• David Morgan and John Davidson: Appreciations
• Susan Reynolds: Secular Power and Authority in the Middle Ages
• Robert Bartlett: Heartland and Border: the Mental and Physical Geography of Medieval Europe
• Huw Pryce: Welsh Rulers and European Change, c.1100-1282
• Alexander Murray: Bede and the Unchosen Race
• Wendy Davies: The Early Middle Ages and Spanish Identity
• John Gillingham: Normanizing the English Invaders of Ireland
• Alexander Grant: Lordship and Society in Twelfth-Century Clydesdale
• Robin Frame: Lordship and Liberties in Ireland and Wales, c.1170-c.1360
• J. Beverley Smith: 'Distinction and Diversity': the Common Lawyers and the Law of Wales
• Brendan Smith: Lordship in the British Isles, c.1320-c.1360: the Ebb-Tide of the English Empire?
• D. A. L. Morgan: The Charterhouse of Cadzand and the Serendipities of Empire
• Llinos Beverley Smith: On the Hospitality of the Welsh: a Comparative View
• Philip Morgan: Cheshire and Wales
• Ralph A. Griffiths: Crossing the Frontiers of the English Realm in the Fifteenth Century
• Colin Richmond: Identity and Morality: Power and Politics during the Wars of the Roses
• John Watts: Public or Plebs: the Changing Meaning of 'the Commons', 1381-1549
• A Farewell Speech
• Rhidian Griffiths: A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Rees Davies

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199285462
• ISBN 13: 9780199285464
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Redattore: Pryce Huw, Watts John
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile