Llywelyn ap Gruffudd : Prince of Wales
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Llywelyn ap Gruffudd : Prince of Wales
University of Wales Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 615-638) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Inheritance 2. Bryn Derwin 3. Supremacy 4. Rhyd Chwima 5. Lord of Snowdon 6. Prince of Wales 7. A Principality in Perplexity 8. Aberconwy 9. Contention and Conflict 10. Cilmeri
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