The Gwent County History, Volume 2

The Age of the Marcher Lords

Ralph Griffiths

The Gwent County History, Volume 2
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Ralph Griffiths

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320 pages | 7-1/2 x 9-1/2
University of Wales Press - Gwent County History
Cloth $85.00 ISBN: 9780708320723 Published November 2008 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
Gwent County History, Volume II is the second of a five-volume authoritative history of southeastern Wales and the counties of Monmouthshire and Gwent. Spanning the entire Middle Ages, as well as the historical periods of several marcher lordships—Monmouth, Abergaveny, Chepstow, Newport and the rest
—this volume deals with the landscape, politics, government, castles, society, towns, and economy of southeastern Wales at this time. Featuring the research of thirteen experts from a number of British universities, this modern, up-to-date exploration provides fascinating insight into the language, literature, and times of the period precluding the act of union between Wales and England.
Contents

1. The Transformation of Medieval Gwent

David Crouch

 

2. The Marcher Lordships: Origins, Descent and Organization

Paul Courtney

 

3. Settlement and Society

Jonathan Kissock

 

4. Masonry Castles and Castle-building

John R. Kenyon

 

5. The Towns

Tony Hopkins

 

6. Markets, Trade and Industry

Robert Weeks

 

Appendix

The Newport Medieval Ship

J. Kate Howell and Bob Trett

 

7. The Parish Churches

Jeremy Knight

 

8. The Religious Orders

David H. Williams

 

9. Plague and Revolt

R.R. Davies

 

10. Lordship and Society in the Fifteenth Century

Ralph A. Griffiths

 

11. ‘Talm o Wentoedd’: The Welsh Language and its Literature, c. 1070-c.1530

Dylan Foster Evans

 

12. The Early Tudors

W.R.B. Robinson

 

13. The Pre-Reformation Church

Madeleine Gray

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