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Writing Welsh History
The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, analysing and contextualizing historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.
Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satire, religious skepticism, ghost stories, and irrepressible wit? And why, though the attribution is spurious, is it not, in some ways, implausible? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer these and other questions in the first English-language monograph on Walter Map—and in so doing, he offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including King Arthur and his knights, first circulated in England. Smith contends that it was inventive clerics like Walter, a...
Magic in Britain
Magic, both benevolent (white) and malign (black), has been practiced in the British Isles since at least the Iron Age (800 BCE-CE 43). "Curse tablets"--metal plates inscribed with curses intended to harm specific people--date from the Roman Empire. The Anglo-Saxons who settled in England in the fifth and sixth centuries used ritual curses in documents, and wrote spells and charms. When they became Christians in the seventh century, the new "magicians" were saints, who performed miracles. When William of Normandy became king in 1066, there was a resurgence of belief in magic. The Church was able to quell the fear of magicians, but the Reformation saw its revival, with numerous witchcraft trials in the late 16th and 17th centuries.
Llandaff Cathedral
Dedicated to no less than five saints and the seat of the Archbishop of Wales, Llandaff cathedral has been the hub of the Church in Wales since the eleventh century. In this, the first book about it for over a century, expert authors survey its history, architecture, art and heritage, from Roman times to the present day.
Annual Report of the American Bible Society
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIII
This latest volume reflects the full range and vitality of the current work on the Anglo-Norman period. Topics covered include economic history, social history and a close study of the Surrey manor of Mortlake.
