Explores how people since the Middle Ages have honored Welsh histories through performance and writing.
Written in honor of Professor Huw Pryce, Memory and Nation brings together exciting new research on writing and performing the history of Wales, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Each chapter offers a different perspective on the theme of historical writing and remembrance. The first section (“Texts and their Histories”) focuses on the creation and function of medieval historical texts. A wide range of texts are investigated here, including chronicles and narrative histories, charters, and the Welsh triads. The second section (“History and Identity”) concerns the relationship between writing history and identity construction. Chapters consider different aspects of this theme, including the role of bishops in writing history and the use of names to construct ethnic identities. The third and final section (“Memory and Nation”) widens the lens to investigate strategies of remembrance and the performance of history. This includes essays on the Eisteddfod, tattoos of historical individuals, and the role of historical pageants in twentieth-century nation-building. Taken together, these chapters offer new insights into Welsh historical writing and perceptions of the past throughout the ages.
Written in honor of Professor Huw Pryce, Memory and Nation brings together exciting new research on writing and performing the history of Wales, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Each chapter offers a different perspective on the theme of historical writing and remembrance. The first section (“Texts and their Histories”) focuses on the creation and function of medieval historical texts. A wide range of texts are investigated here, including chronicles and narrative histories, charters, and the Welsh triads. The second section (“History and Identity”) concerns the relationship between writing history and identity construction. Chapters consider different aspects of this theme, including the role of bishops in writing history and the use of names to construct ethnic identities. The third and final section (“Memory and Nation”) widens the lens to investigate strategies of remembrance and the performance of history. This includes essays on the Eisteddfod, tattoos of historical individuals, and the role of historical pageants in twentieth-century nation-building. Taken together, these chapters offer new insights into Welsh historical writing and perceptions of the past throughout the ages.
400 pages | 10 halftones | 5.43 x 8.5
History: British and Irish History
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Introduction (bilingual)
Part I: Texts and their Histories
How did medieval Welsh chroniclers find their information?
David Stephenson
The Reception of Gerald of Wales in Welsh Historical Texts
Georgia Henley
Trioedd Ynys Prydein fel Testunau Hanes
Nia Jones
From Llandaf to Liber A: Welsh Charters and Diplomatics in Long Perspective
Charles Insley
The Development of Old Welsh Boundary Clauses
Ben Guy
Part II: History and Identity
Naming and National Identity: The Monastic Orders in Late Medieval Ireland and Wales Compared
David E. Thornton
Gwystlon yn De gestis Britonum a Brut y Brenhinedd
Rebecca Thomas
The Medieval Bishops of Bangor and the Writing of Welsh History
Shaun McGuinness
The Context of Laudabiliter in the Works of Gerald of Wales
T. M. Charles-Edwards
‘Pinnacles of Preaching’ and Men of ‘Bold Learning’?: Religious Reforms, Culture, and the Role of the Sixteenth-Century Bishops of Bangor
Katharine K. Olson
Part III: Memory and Nation
Antiquarianism, Ancestry and ‘Ancient Britons’: Welsh historical consciousness, cultural patronage and the identity of the gentry, c. 1800–1920
Shaun Evans
‘Th’enlighten’d crowd with grateful raptures glow’: History, setting norms and Victorian modernity in eisteddfod competitions 1815–1855
Marion Löffler
‘Ireland Raids Wales’: Pageants and the Performance of History in the 1920s
Paul O’Leary
Tattooing Owain Glyndwr? The body, memory and interpretations of Welsh history
Mari Elin Wiliam, with the assistance of Owen Hurcum
‘Time Present and Time Past’: Narrating Nation and Society in Welsh Historical Writing, 1970-2010
Neil Evans
Llyfryddiaeth o weithiau cyhoeddedig Huw Pryce / A bibliography of the published works of Huw Pryce (hyd 2022 / to 2022)
Rhidian Griffiths
Bibliography
Part I: Texts and their Histories
How did medieval Welsh chroniclers find their information?
David Stephenson
The Reception of Gerald of Wales in Welsh Historical Texts
Georgia Henley
Trioedd Ynys Prydein fel Testunau Hanes
Nia Jones
From Llandaf to Liber A: Welsh Charters and Diplomatics in Long Perspective
Charles Insley
The Development of Old Welsh Boundary Clauses
Ben Guy
Part II: History and Identity
Naming and National Identity: The Monastic Orders in Late Medieval Ireland and Wales Compared
David E. Thornton
Gwystlon yn De gestis Britonum a Brut y Brenhinedd
Rebecca Thomas
The Medieval Bishops of Bangor and the Writing of Welsh History
Shaun McGuinness
The Context of Laudabiliter in the Works of Gerald of Wales
T. M. Charles-Edwards
‘Pinnacles of Preaching’ and Men of ‘Bold Learning’?: Religious Reforms, Culture, and the Role of the Sixteenth-Century Bishops of Bangor
Katharine K. Olson
Part III: Memory and Nation
Antiquarianism, Ancestry and ‘Ancient Britons’: Welsh historical consciousness, cultural patronage and the identity of the gentry, c. 1800–1920
Shaun Evans
‘Th’enlighten’d crowd with grateful raptures glow’: History, setting norms and Victorian modernity in eisteddfod competitions 1815–1855
Marion Löffler
‘Ireland Raids Wales’: Pageants and the Performance of History in the 1920s
Paul O’Leary
Tattooing Owain Glyndwr? The body, memory and interpretations of Welsh history
Mari Elin Wiliam, with the assistance of Owen Hurcum
‘Time Present and Time Past’: Narrating Nation and Society in Welsh Historical Writing, 1970-2010
Neil Evans
Llyfryddiaeth o weithiau cyhoeddedig Huw Pryce / A bibliography of the published works of Huw Pryce (hyd 2022 / to 2022)
Rhidian Griffiths
Bibliography