Patterns of Power in Early Wales
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:4th Oct '90
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This book is an exploration of the nature of power in early medieval Wales. Wendy Davies examines the distribution of power, territorial and social, and traces the ways in which contemporaries defined this fundamental concept. She confronts challenging questions relating to definitions and consequences of military control, alien settlement, landownership, and political domination. Professor Davies analyses the impact and nature of English, Irish, and Viking contacts with the Welsh, and argues their significance for the long-term development of Wales. This is a stimulating and scholarly study by one of the foremost historians of the Celtic world.
'a useful contribution to the discussion' Times Literary Supplement
`has all the virtues of concise, thoughtful presentation that readers of her work have come to expect ... Anyone interested in what it meant to exercise power in the early Middle Ages will read this book with pleasure and with profit.' Journal of Medieval History
'Professor Davies's stimulating approach will be assured of a broad measure of approbation.' J.B. Smith, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, History, February 1992
'within the turmoil of social and political change, Wendy Davies has given us much to think about' Henry Loyn, Welsh History Review, 12/91
'There is much to attract Welsh historians to this little book.' David N. Dumville, Girton College, Cambridge, Journal of Welsh Religious History
'This is a short book, but it is written by a distinguished historian who defies the limitations of the source-materials and the traditional patterns of interpretation to propound these new approaches to the history of Wales in the early Middle Ages.' D.P. Kirby University College of Wales, Aberystwyth EHR Shorter Notices April '94
This book is a welcome addition to the rather small collection of scholarly books on early medieval Wales. * Michael Richter, Universität Konstanz, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXIX No. 116, November 1995 *
ISBN: 9780198201533
Dimensions: 218mm x 145mm x 13mm
Weight: 272g
120 pages