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Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies New Edition
Author(s): Huw Pryce (Editor), John Watts
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 2007
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199285462
- ISBN-13: 9780199285464
Book Description
Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range across ten centuries, looking at a variety of key topics. Issues explored range from the historical representations of peoples and the changing patterns of power and authority, to the notions of 'core' and 'periphery' and the relationship between local conditions and international movements. The political impact of words and ideas, and the parallels between developments in Wales and those elsewhere in Britain, Ireland and Europe are also discussed. Appreciations of Rees Davies, a bibliography of his works, and Davies' own farewell speech to the History Faculty at the University of Oxford complete this outstanding tribute to a much-missed scholar.
Editorial Reviews
Review
[a] rich and varied anthology. ― Early Medieval Europe
a worthy memorial to one of the most gifted historians ever produced ―
A. D. CARR Merioneth Historical And Record SocietyThis is historical scholarship at its best. ―
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