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5 giorni fa · We continue the history of Welsh literature as Jerry Hunter guides fellow academic Richard Wyn Jones through the centuries in a series of lively podcasts. This article complements episode 40. Jerry Hunter In the introduction to his 1547 English-Welsh dictionary, William Salesbury addresses a special kind of reader, defined as y rhai sydd â mawrddysg […]
3 giorni fa · In the ‘Introduction’ the author stresses the rationale for writing Wales since 1939. Firstly, since the history of modern Wales has only been of peripheral interest (if that even) to the British history and historians of the period, there is a need to expand understanding of the Welsh perspective.
4 giorni fa · Student dissertation for The Open University module A329 The making of Welsh history ... Welsh phrase, influenced nationalism, politics, language and ...
1 giorno fa · Who was the Welsh soldier of the late Middle Ages? What was the world from which he emerged, and for whom, and against whom, did he fight? Can it be claimed that he made a significant contribution to the way wars were fought during this period?
1 giorno fa · English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, [13] but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish.
3 giorni fa · This is not a new problem in Welsh history; the occasional suggestion that this revolt was a Welsh proxy for the great English revolt of 1381 or the Jacquerie takes Welshness as an analogy for class. A social analysis of the revolt’s leaders and Welsh beneficiaries, as Ralph Griffiths has noted, suggests weaknesses in that idea, which Stevens’s economic approach arguably reinforces.
3 giorni fa · Wales had become Christian, and the “age of the saints” (approximately 500–700) was marked by the establishment of monastic settlements throughout the country, by religious leaders such as Saint David, Illtud and Teilo. One of the reasons for the Roman withdrawal was the pressure put upon the empire’s military resources by the incursion ...
