Watkin provides a history of the various legal systems by which Wales and its people have been governed over the last two millenia, including the civil law of Rome, the laws of the native Welsh people, the canon law of the Church and the English common law.
The World War II fighter-pilot storyOn the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets.
Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe.
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedmans Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject History of Europe - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 1,3, University of Hannover (Faculty of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences/ European Studies), language: English, abstract: Is Turkey a European country?
This is Not a Grail Romance provides answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, one of the few surviving medieval Welsh narrative compositions, and an important member of the 'Grail' family of medieval European narratives.
Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution provides for the first time an edition, with parallel English translations, of Welsh-language ballads composed in reaction to the momentous events of the Revolution in France and the two decades of war which followed.
This book explores the relationship between the justice system and local society at a time when the Industrial Revolution was changing the characteristics of mid Wales.
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedmans Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.
"e;Urban Culture in Medieval Wales"e; is a collection of articles that examine towns and urban life as part of the cultural fabric of late-medieval Wales.
Als im Februar 1637 die Tulpenmarkte von Haarlem und Amsterdam zusammenbrachen, war die wirtschaftliche Katastrophe fur viele Handwerker und Kleinhandler total - doch die kulturelle Reaktion war ebenso aufschlussreich wie der Crash selbst.
A ground-breaking volume which examins material in three languages - Welsh, English and Cherokee (Dsalagi) - while discussing different aspects of the missionary work of two Welsh Baptists who lived and worked amongst the native American tribe.
Barcelona - Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period.
Written to celebrate the prestigious career of Professor Denys Pringle, this collection of articles produced by many of the leading archaeologists and historians in the field of crusades studies offers a compilation of pioneering scholarship on recent studies on the Latin East.
Examines Welsh writing in English in the context of critical debates concerning the rise of cultural nationalism and the 'invention' of Great Britain as a nation in the eighteenth century.
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins.
An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid 1860s until the achievement of equal voting rights with men in 1928.
Relates to one of Wales' most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009.
This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and identity in the medieval city.
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England.
This book is a pioneering comparison of Wales with another small people, the Slovenes, over the formative period for national development in modern Europe.
Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities.
An authoritative life of Harold II, the king who died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066Harold Godwinson is renowned as the king who lost England to the invading William the Conqueror in 1066.
This anthology of Welsh poetry and English translations presents some of Wales's radical and reactionary responses to the French Revolution and its cultural legacy, 1789-1805.
This is the first significant study of the entrepreneurial society created by the Welsh coal boom (most books up to now having concentrated upon the workers and the unions).
The evangelical or Methodist revival had a major impact on Welsh religion, society and culture, leading to the unprecedented growth of Nonconformity by the nineteenth century, which established a very clear difference between Wales and England in religious terms.
