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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Gerald of wales"”.
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The manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales
My dissertation is a palaeographical study of the manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223). Gerald was a churchman, a member of the court of King Henry II and a prolific author. His extensive works include historical and topographical descriptions of Ireland and Wales, theological …
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Fantastic facts : the supernatural in the ethnographic writings of Giraldus Cambrensis.
This thesis seeks to answer the question of what role supernatural themes and motifs played in allowing us a glimpse into Gerald of Wales’ sense of dualist identity. He is revered by many modern Welsh scholars as an early Welsh nationalist, even though Gerald did not always see himself that way, …
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The political and military impact of Henry II’s campaigns in Wales
This study examines the Welsh campaigns of Henry II and the impact they had on his policy making and the military efforts throughout his reign. What emerges from scholarship is a historiographical tradition governed by two themes. Firstly, that there was a degree of continuity in the conduct and …
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The Welsh soldier: 1283-1422
The present thesis is a study of the reality – and the myth – of the ‘Welsh soldier’ in the later middle ages. The final defeat of the Princes of Gwynedd in 1283 was formalised by the division of the principality of Gwynedd and the ‘feudalisation’ of its territory set out in the statute of Wales …
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Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature
… Literature,” I analyze the appearance of the Eucharist as a sacred motif in secular lais, romances, and chronicles. The Eucharist became one of the most controversial intellectual topics of the High Middle Ages. While medieval historians and religious scholars have long recognized that …
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The influence of religion on the survival of the Welsh language 1801-2011 : a tale of two centuries.
… an Indio-European root. In the outer regions of the Roman Empire, two branches of Celtic emerged – Brittonic (P Celtic), spoken throughout most of Britain including lowland Scotland, and Goidelic (Q Celtic) – the language of Ireland. 1 Brittonic remained the language of Britain through the …