Cardiganshire County History Volume 2: Medieval And Early Modern Cardiganshire Hardcover

Jenkins, Geraint H.

Cardiganshire County History Volume 2 is published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Ceredigion Historical Society, in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative account, written by distinguished authors in fifteen chapters, of the wide range of social, economic, political, religious and cultural forces that shaped the ethos and character of the county of Cardiganshire over a period of 600 years. This was a period of great turbulence and change. It witnessed conquest and castle-building, the impact of the Glyndwr rebellion, the coming of the Protestant Reformation, and the turmoil of civil war. Over time, the inhabitants of the county developed a sense of themselves as a distinctive people who dwelt in a recognisable entity. From very early on, literate people took pride in their native patch; in the eyes of the learned Sulien (d. 1091) and his sons, the land of Ceredig was a sacred patria. Poets and scribes burnished the reputation of the county, and a vibrant poem by Sion Morys in 1577 maintained that it was the best of shires and `the fold of the generous ones'.

9781786834522

English

University of Wales Press

24-Jan-20

512

Professor Geraint H Jenkins, Professor Emeritus, University of Wales, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Richard Suggett, Senior Investigator of Historic Buildings, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales at Aberystwyth. Dr Eryn M White, Reader, Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University.

Geraint H. Jenkins

Richard Suggett

Eryn Mant White