Women in Medieval Wales
Medieval Wales was a hierarchical society which was based on a system in which people had different rank’s or positions, and in the case of women their position was dependent on their closest male relative. This organizational structure was founded on Celtic law codes that were based on ‘Cyfraith Hywel ‘the Law of Hywel’, namely…
Brut Y Tywysogyon – the Chronicle of Princes
According to the Brut Y Tywysogyon or (‘the Chronicle of Princes’) entry for 1093, Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Deheubarth in south west of Wales was killed by ‘the French who inhabited Brecheiniog; and then fell the kingdom of the Britons’. The chronicle is thought to have been translated into Welsh from Latin versions no…
Rhigyfarch’s – Life of St. David
A new translation in 2007 of Rhigyfarch’s Life of St. David by Richard Sharpe and John Rueben Davies, while the Life has received limited academic interest for some decades, this edition stimulated new interest in St. David. Jonathan Wooding suggested that ‘The reassessment of the character of Rhigyfarch’s text by Sharpe and Davies also has…
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