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Wales and the Britons, 350-1064
T. M. Charles-Edwards
出版
OUP Oxford
, 2013
主題
History / Ancient / General
History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / Wales
History / Europe / Medieval
History / Social History
Religion / History
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0198217315
9780198217312
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AK_yn7Q3_x0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This, the first volume in the History of Wales, provides a detailed history of Wales in the period in which it was created out of the remnants of Roman Britain. It thus begins in the fourth century, with accelerating attacks from external forces, and ends shortly before the Norman Conquest of England. The narrative history is interwoven with chapters on the principal sources, the social history of Wales, the Church, the early history of the Welsh language, and its early literature, both in Welsh and in Latin. In the fourth century contemporaries knew of the Britons but not of Wales in the modern sense. Charles-Edwards, therefore, includes the history of the other Britons when it helps to illuminate the history of what we now know as Wales. Although an early form of the name Wales existed, it was a word in the Germanic languages, including English, and meant inhabitants of the former Roman Empire; it therefore covered the Gallo-Romans of what we know as France as well as the Britons.