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ISBN-13 :  9780192692320

Author :  Huw Pryce 

Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh – and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The study’s broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring preoccupation is Wales’s place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward I’s conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.

Writing Welsh History: From the Early Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century 1st Table of contents:

PART I. DISTANT PASTS AND CONFLICTED PRESENTSThe Middle Ages
1. Prologue: Themes and Contexts
2. British Pasts: The Early Middle Ages
Gildas’s De Excidio Britanniae
The Harleian Collection of Historical Texts
3. Saints, Kings, and Princes: Welsh Pasts in an Age of Conquest, c.1070–1282
British Pasts
Narrating Welsh Rulers
4. Curating the Past in a Conquered Land, 1282–1540
The Continuing Influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Gutun Owain
PART II. Reaffirmation and Elaboration, 1540–1770
5. ‘Our Ancestors the Ancient Britons’, 1540–1620
Introduction
Defending the British History
Early British Church History and Religious Apologetic
6. From the Universal to the Local: Framing the History of Wales, 1540–1620
Wales in the World: The Chronicle of Elis Gruffudd
Histories of Wales
Family and Locality
7. Refurbishing the Past: Antiquarianism and Historical Writing, 1620–1707
Old Pasts, New Contexts
History, Genealogy, and Gentry: Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt and His World
Percy Enderbie: Wales, Britain, and the Deep Roots of Monarchy
Powel Revised: William Wynne’s History of Wales
‘Fabulous Relations’ and ‘Genuine Histories’: Edward Lhuyd and the Recovery of the Past
8. From Druids to the Last Bard, 1707–70
Contexts and Themes
Celtic Origins and Divine Providence
Britons, Princes, and Bards in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
PART III. Romanticism and Enlightenment, 1770–1880
9. Civilization, Liberty, and Dissent, 1770–1820
Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Reinvention of the Welsh Past
Topographical History: From Thomas Pennant to Theophilus Jones
William Warrington: ‘The First Regular Historian of Wales’
Nonconformist Pasts
10. Cultural Revival and Romantic History: The World of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1820–48
Contexts
Welsh History Writing, c.1820–c.1840
Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) and the History of Wales
11. ‘Living in the Past’ and the Challenges of Modernity, 1848–80
The Present and the Past in Mid-Victorian Wales
Legend and History
Nonconformity, Imperial Britain, and American Liberty: The Welsh in the Modern World
PART IV. Professionalization and Nationhood, 1880–2020
12. Scientific History and National Awakening, 1880–1920
From Medieval to Modern Wales
New Scholarly Approaches
John Edward Lloyd
13. Consolidation and Reappraisal, 1920–60
Contexts: The Academy and Beyond
Old Themes Revisited: Political and Ecclesiastical History
New Approaches: I. Landscapes, Cultures, and the Remote Past
New Approaches: II. The Economic Turn
14. A New Beginning?Writing Welsh History, 1960–2020
Changing Approaches
Locating Wales and The Welsh
Conclusion
Bibliography of Works Cited

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