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A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.
Sommario
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Law Manuscripts and Sigla
Preface
PART I: READING THE LAW, SHAPING THE LAW
1.Introduction: Medieval Welsh Law and the Lawtexts
2.'A Rather Laborious and Harassing Occupation': Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales and the Historiography of the Welsh Laws
3.'Rei a dyweit': Lawyers and the Law in Medieval Wales
Appendix - 'Rei a dyweit'
PART II: A NEW APPROACH TO CYFRAITH HYWEL
4.'All Additional and Later Matter': The 'Anomalous Laws' and the Lawtexts
5.'Achwannec kyureith dylyedus y chynnal': the Blegywryd Redaction
6.'O gyureith Hywel Da, a'e arueroed, a'e gynneuodeu': The Development of the Redaction Manuscripts
7.'Much matter not elsewhere to be found': The Non-Redaction
Lawbooks
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Index of Manuscripts
Info autore
Sara Elin Roberts is a historian specialising in the law, literature and culture of Wales and the March from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. She has been working on medieval Welsh lawbooks for more than two decades.
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A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.
