Authority and subjugation in writing of medieval Wales /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 290 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The new Middle Ages
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Middle English texts and Welsh contexts / William Marx -- Where was Wales? The erasure of Wales in Medieval English culture / Simon Meecham-Jones -- The Lichfield/Llandeilo gospels reinterpreted / Michelle P. Brown -- "Feorran broht": Exeter book riddle 12 and the commodification of the exotic / Peter Robson -- "By the authority of the devil": the operation of Welsh and English law in Medieval Wales / Sara Elin Roberts -- Trevisa's translation of Higden's Polychronicon, Book I, chapter 38, De Wallia: an edition / Ronald Waldron -- Wales and Welshness in middle English romances / Tony Davenport -- Crossing the borders: literary borrowing in medieval Wales and England / Cerldwen Lioyd-Morgan -- Malory's divided Wales / Cory James Rushton -- Class and nation: defining the English in late-Medieval Welsh poetry / Helen Fulton -- English economies and Welsh realities: drama in Medieval and early modern Wales / David N. Klausner -- "Songes of the doeinges of their auncestors": aspects of Welsh and English musical traditions / Sally Harper -- William Salesbury and welsh printing in London before 1557 / Geraint Evans.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Authority in literature.
Colonies in literature.
English literature-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Politics and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.
Welsh literature-- 1100-1400-- History and criticism.
Welsh literature-- 1400-1550-- History and criticism.