Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales: (New Middle Ages)

This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of medieval Britain.

Table of Contents:
English Language Texts and Welsh Contexts - William Marx * Where was Wales? The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture - Simon Meecham-Jones * A Tale of Two Monastic Cities: Lichfield, Llandeilo Fawr and their Eighth-Century Gospelbook - Michelle P. Brown * Exeter Book Riddle 12: Fotum ich fere ... - Peter Robson * 'By the Authority of the Devil': The Operation of Welsh and English Law in Medieval Wales - Sara Elin Roberts * Higden's Translation of Trevisa's Polychronicon, Book 38: An Edition - Ronald Waldron * Wales and the Welsh in Middle English Romance - Tony Davenport * Wales and the Continent in the Context of Literature and Manuscripts - Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan * Malory's Divided Wales - Cory James Rushton * Class and Nation: Defining the English in the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym - Helen Fulton * English Economies and Welsh Realities: Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Wales - David Klausner * 'Songes of the Doeinges of their Auncestors': Aspects of Welsh and English Musical Traditions - Sally Harper * William Salesbury and Welsh Printing in London, 1546-1553 - Geraint Evans

About the Author :
Ruth Kennedy is Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London. Simon Meecham-Jones is Associate Research Fellow, University of Swansea and affiliated lecturer, Cambridge University.

Review :
"What is wonderful and absolutely new about this collection is that it looks at the Wales-England nexus from both sides at once. No comparable volume is similarly Janus-faced. This collection of essays underscores the obvious but overlooked fact that it is essential to have Celticists be primary contributors to the interdisciplinary conversation unfolding over what a postcolonial Middle Ages means. A smart, insightful book that ought to be widely read." - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Professor and Chair of English , George Washington University "Setting out to remedy the invisibility of Wales in medieval English culture in the 'union of unequal respect' that has persisted ever since the forced absorption of Wales into England, it highlights under-commented connections, such as that the largest concentration of urban Welsh was in London; it looks at the consequences of missing evidence, especially in respect of manuscripts; it offers a reconsideration of the inequalities of conquest, as in the three systems of law; and it is full of small delights, such as Trevisa's account of the homing-stone of Anglesey that sweats if anyone 'doth lechery' too close to it." - Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University of Cambridge "This is a superb collection of original pieces on Wales in the Middle Ages, offering long-overdue perspectives not only on how Welsh people saw and understood themselves in a period when their identity was constantly being contested and negotiated, but also on how the English viewed their obstinately different and resilient neighbors ...This ground-breaking work, fascinating in itself, but full of insights into some very broad questions around national identity and cultural continuities, is a major contribution to mediaeval studies and to Welsh historiography alike." - The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury