Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees DaviesHuw Pryce, John Watts OUP Oxford, 2007 M07 12 - 296 pages 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. |
Contents
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1 Appreciations | 5 |
2 Secular Power and Authority in the Middle Ages | 11 |
The Mental and Physical Geography of Medieval Europe | 23 |
4 Welsh Rulers and European Change c11001282 | 37 |
5 Bede and the Unchosen Race | 52 |
6 The Early Middle Ages and Spanish Identity | 68 |
7 Normanizing the English Invaders of Ireland | 85 |
the Ebb Tide of the English Empire? | 153 |
12 The Charterhouse of Cadzand and the Serendipities of Empire | 164 |
A Comparative View | 181 |
14 Cheshire and Wales | 195 |
15 Crossing the Frontiers of the English Realm in the Fifteenth Century | 211 |
Power and Politics During the Wars of the Roses | 226 |
The Changing Meaning of the Commons 13811549 | 242 |
18 A Farewell Speech | 261 |
8 Lordship and Society in Twelfthcentury Clydesdale | 98 |
9 Lordship and Liberties in Ireland and Wales c1170c1360 | 125 |
The Common Lawyers and the Law of Wales | 139 |
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Rees Davies | 264 |
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