This book explores the ecclesiastical and political transformation of south-east Wales in the later eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Ecclesiastical and administrative reform was one of the defining characteristics of the Norman regime in Britain, and the author argues that a new generation of clergy in South Wales was at the heart of this reforming programme. The focus of this volume is the early twelfth-century Book of Llandaf, one of the most perplexing but exciting historical works from post-Conquest Britain. It has long been viewed as a primary source for the history of early...
This book explores the ecclesiastical and political transformation of south-east Wales in the later eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Ecclesiastic...
The volume examines, through a series of case studies, the way in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland from the 6th to the 16th centuries. The papers highlight the factors that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. The collection has a particular emphasis on northern Britain, and the role of devotional interests in connecting or shaping a number of polities and cultural identities Pictish, Scottish, Northumbrian, Irish, Welsh and...
The volume examines, through a series of case studies, the way in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boun...
