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An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic conflict, but one where hybrid identities could exist.
List of contents
Introduction: the
Dunsæte Agreement and daily life in the Welsh borderlands
1 Penda of Mercia and the Welsh borderlands in Bede's
Historia Ecclesiastica2 The Welsh borderlands in the
Lives of St. Guthlac
3 The 'dark Welsh' as slaves and slave raiders in Exeter Book riddles 52 and 72
4 The Welsh borderlands in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 5 The transformation of the borderlands outlaw in the eleventh century
Conclusion: Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon in the Welsh borderlands
Index
About the author
Lindy Brady is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi
Summary
An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic conflict, but one where hybrid identities could exist. -- .
