Although an early form of the name wales existed, it was a word in the germanic languages, including english, and meant inhabitants of the former roman empire. Bards and britons, sarah prescott is published by university of wales press. A new synthesis of early medieval brittonic history wales and the. This, the first volume in the history of wales, provides a detailed history of wales in the period in which it was created out of the remnants of roman britain. At the end of the roman period, the britons, more or less romanised, occupied most of the island of britain, and by the early sixth century, at the latest, had occupied parts of northwest gaul. This, the first volume in the history of wales, pr. Sets the history of wales in the context of the other britons, of ireland, and of england. The inhabitants of what is now wales were just britons. Bbc two story of welsh with huw edwards, brought to book. A new synthesis of early medieval brittonic history wales and the britons 350 1064 by thomas m. Wales 1063 1415, recovery, reorientation, and reformation. It thus begins in the fourth century, with accelerating attacks from external forces, and ends shortly before the norman conquest of england.
Integrates the history of language and literature with the history of events. Charlesedwards, therefore, includes the history of the other britons when it helps to illuminate the history of what we now know as wales. Wales and the britons, 350 1064, the age of conquest. Thomas charlesedwards has written a book that will be essential reading, and not only for those concerned with the history of wales, for many decades to. The book thus includes the britons of north britain, of cornwall, and of brittany, although its main focus is the britons of wales. Charlesedwards also faces the problem that a unit of analysis roughly equivalent to wales only really began to emerge as his allotted period drew to a close. Oxford, oxford university press, 20 the history of wales, vol. In the fourth century contemporaries knew of the britons but not of wales in the modernsense.