Writing Welsh History
From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 May 2022
- ISBN 9780198746034
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages508 pages
- Size 241x164x31 mm
- Weight 872 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black and white figures/maps 201
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Short description:
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.
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Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The study's broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring preoccupation is Wales's place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.
The chronological sweep of this text allows Pryce (emer., Bangor Univ.) to illuminate the ways in which the course of the history of the Welsh people produced changes in interpretations of that history. He also introduces readers to a vast number of writers and histories of Wales written over multiple centuries.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I. DISTANT PASTS AND CONFLICTED PRESENTS: THE MIDDLE AGES
Prologue: Themes and Contexts
British Pasts: The Early Middle Ages
Saints, Kings, and Princes: Welsh Pasts in an Age of Conquest, 1070-1282
Curating the Past in a Conquered Land, 1282-1540
PART II. REAFFIRMATION AND ELABORATION, 1540-1770
'Our Ancestors the Ancient Britons', 1540-1620
From the Universal to the Local: Framing the History of Wales, 1540-1620
Refurbishing the Past: Antiquarianism and Historical Writing, 1620-1707
From Druids to the Last Bard, 1707-1770
PART III. ROMANTICISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT, 1770-1880
Civilization, Liberty, and Dissent, 1770-1820
Cultural Revival and Romantic History: The World of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1820-1848
'Living in the Past' and the Challenges of Modernity, 1848-1880
PART IV. PROFESSIONALIZATION AND NATIONHOOD, 1880-2020
Scientific History and National Awakening, 1880-1920
Consolidation and Reappraisal, 1920-1960
A New Beginning? Writing Welsh History, 1960-2020
Conclusion
