Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales [Hardcover]

The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty - a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and political cultures. But the profound consequences of this first colonial adventure on the development of medieval English culture have been disregarded. In setting English figurations of Wales against the contrasted representations of the Welsh language tradition, this volume seeks to reverse this neglect, insisting on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales for any understanding of the literary cultures of medieval England and medieval Britain.English Language Texts and Welsh Contexts; W.Marx Where was Wales??The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture; S.Meecham-Jones A Tale of Two Monastic Cities: Lichfield, Llandeilo Fawr?and their Eighth-Century Gospelbook; M.P.Brown Exeter Book Riddle 12: Fotum ich fere&; P.Robson 'By the Authority of the Devil': The Operation of Welsh?and English Law in Medieval Wales; S.Elin Roberts Higden's Translation of Trevisa's Polychronicon, Book 38: An Edition; R.Waldron Wales and the Welsh in Middle English Romance; T.Davenport Wales and the Continent in the Context of Literature and Manuscripts; C.L.Morgan Malory's Divided Wales; C.J.Rushton Class and Nation: Defining the English?in the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym; H.Fulton English Economies and Welsh Realities: Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Wales; D.Klausner 'Songes of the Doeinges of their Auncestors':?Aspects of Welsh and English Musical Traditions; S.Harper William Salesbury and Welsh Printing in London, 15461553; G.Evans

These chapters should prove extremely useful to scholars of medieval English literature and culture who are interested in Wales and the Welsh - or, in the spirit of Meecham-Jones's provocative contribution, for all scholars of medieval English literature, who really should l³-