Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March (eBook)

One Family's Story

David Stephenson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
160 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-820-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to becoming key players in the politics of thirteenth and fourteenth century Wales, as well as prominent advisers, diplomats and administrators for the English kings of the fourteenth century.

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgements
Genealogical Chart
Map
Prologue: Crisis at Cefnllys
Chapter 1: Questions of Ancestry
Chapter 2: Diligence, Danger and Distinction:
The career of Hywel ap Meurig
Intermezzo: The sons of Hywel ap Meurig
Chapter 3. Philip ap Hywel: Administrative eminence and political peril
Chapter 4: The empire builders: Master Rees ap Hywel and his sons
Chapter 5: Continuity and new directions: Sir Philip Clanvowe
Chapter 6: The last of the line: the later Clanvowes
Chapter 7: Some reflections
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: David • Family's • March • Medieval • One • Patronage • Power • Stephenson • Story • Welsh
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-820-6 / 1786838206
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-820-9 / 9781786838209