Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales - Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin, 1282-1348

Informationen zum Autor Dr Matthew Frank Stevens is currently a research officer at the Institute of Historical research! University of London. Klappentext Much scholarship has been done on Welsh and English cities after the Black Death but until now no serious attempt has been made to understand what they were like in the seventy-five or so years preceding the pandemic. In "Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales!" Matthew Frank Stevens fills this research gap! drawing on a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss the significance of ethnicity! gender! and social status in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centers that emerged in North Wales following the English conquest of 1282. Zusammenfassung Uses a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Stevens Matthew, MATTHEW FRANK STEVENS, Matthew Stevens, Matthew Frank Stevens, Stevens Matthew
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2010
• EAN: 9780708322499
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2249-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies in Welsh History; Studies in Welsh History (Hard; Studies in Welsh History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Post, Wales, 1282, Gender, Economy, Urban, Assimilation, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, Ethnicity, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Conquest, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Ruthin, 1348