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Edward I's Conquest of Wales

Title: Edward I's Conquest of Wales / Sean Davies.
Author: Davies, Sean
Publication: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2017.

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Description

x, 220 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Summary

"Edward I's conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 years. ... While Edward I is one of the best-known English kings, his principal opponent, Llewelyn ap Gruffud [Gruffyd] and the other Welsh princes - and the nature of their rule - remain a mystery to most general readers. ... [Davies'] account is set in the context of Welsh warfare and society from the end of Rome to the time of Edward's opening campaign in the late thirteenth century. It offers an alternative to the clichéd view of the inevitable advance of a more sophisticated military culture at the expense of a primitive people fighting for freedom. The narrative describes in vivid detail the military history of the conflict, the sequence of campaigns, Welsh resistance, Edward's castle building and English colonization and the cost of the struggle to the Welsh and English - and the uneasy peace that followed."--Book jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Timeline -- 1. The red and the white dragons -- 2. English and Welsh military institutions -- 3. The rise of a prince -- 4. The young panther -- 5. The road to Montgomery -- 6. The phoney war -- 7. 1277: the war of domination -- 8. Wales under the heel of Longshanks -- 9. 1282-3: the war of conquest -- 10. Castles, colonisation and rule -- 11. Resistance and submission -- 12. A united kingdom?

Call Number

JFE 17-10604

ISBN

1473861667
9781473861664

OCLC

990996837

Author

Davies, Sean, author.

Title

Edward I's Conquest of Wales / Sean Davies.

Publisher

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1272-1536

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10604

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