Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees DaviesHuw Pryce, John Watts OUP Oxford, 2007 M07 12 - 283 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. |
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Page 54
... remained slow . Bede himself , in an early work of 703 , still calls the settlers Saxones . Only in 725 , when surrounded by documents from Canterbury , did he begin to waver , as he still does in Book I of the History ( drafted around ...
... remained slow . Bede himself , in an early work of 703 , still calls the settlers Saxones . Only in 725 , when surrounded by documents from Canterbury , did he begin to waver , as he still does in Book I of the History ( drafted around ...
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... remained slow . Early wandering Scotti were probably more ascetic exiles than missionaries ; and it is characteristic of Bede , mouthpiece of the triumphant missionizers , that his History foreshortens the process by treating the most ...
... remained slow . Early wandering Scotti were probably more ascetic exiles than missionaries ; and it is characteristic of Bede , mouthpiece of the triumphant missionizers , that his History foreshortens the process by treating the most ...
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... remained central to the discussion of urban government and to the legitimation of urban regimes throughout the later middle ages . Since these urban origins exerted both a formative and a lasting influence over the meanings attached to ...
... remained central to the discussion of urban government and to the legitimation of urban regimes throughout the later middle ages . Since these urban origins exerted both a formative and a lasting influence over the meanings attached to ...
Contents
Secular Power and Authority in the Middle Ages | 11 |
Welsh Rulers and European Change c 11001282 | 41 |
The Early Middle Ages and Spanish Identity | 68 |
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