Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales - Couverture rigide

Smith, J. Beverley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0708314740 ISBN 13 : 9780708314746

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 1998

Synopsis

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales is an outstanding work by an author with a perceptive understanding of the complexities of his subject. It is clearly, sometimes passionately, written and is destined to be the definitive work on this matter for many generations. This is the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1225-1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which he lived. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J. Beverley Smith was Professor of Welsh History in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0708314740
• ISBN 13: 9780708314746
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576
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• Personne responsable: non disponible