Power and Identity in the Middle Ages Essays in Memory of Rees Davies [Hardcover]

Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range across ten centuries, looking at a variety of key topics. Issues explored range from the historical representations of peoples and the changing patterns of power and authority, to the notions of 'core' and 'periphery' and the relationship between local conditions and international movements. The political impact of words and ideas, and the parallels between developments in Wales and those elsewhere in Britain, Ireland and Europe are also discussed. Appreciations of Rees Davies, a bibliography of his works, and Davies' own farewell speech to the History Faculty at the University of Oxford complete this outstanding tribute to a much-missed scholar.

Introduction
Appreciations,David Morgan and John Davidson
Secular Power and Authority in the Middle Ages,Susan Reynolds
Heartland and Border: the Mental and Physical Geography of Medieval Europe,Robert Bartlett
Welsh Rulers and European Change, c.1100-1282,Huw Pryce
Bede and the Unchosen Race,Alexander Murray
The Early Middle Ages and Spanish Identity,Wendy Davies
Normanizing the English Invaders of Ireland,John Gillingham
Lordship and Society in Twelfth-Century Clydesdale,Alexander Grant
Lordship and Liberties in Ireland and Wales, c.1170-c.1360,Robin Frame
'Distinction and Diversity': the Common Lawyers and the Law of Wales,J. Beverley Smith
Lordship in the British Isles, c.1320-c.1360: the Ebb-Tide of the English Empire?,Brendan Smith
The Charterhouse of Cadzand and the Serendipities of Empire,D. A. L. Morgan
On the Hospitality of the Welsh: a Comparative View,Llinos Beverley Smith
Cheshire and Wales,PhlÓ>