Wales in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Histories: Neglect, Rediscovery, and their Implications

Thornton, Tim (2017) Wales in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Histories: Neglect, Rediscovery, and their Implications. Historical Research, 90 (250). pp. 683-703. ISSN 1468-2281

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Abstract

Those who read English history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries encountered significant coverage of Wales. English readers of late fifteenth-century chronicles, however, found little sense of the situation of Wales, even regarding its role in the invasion through Wales of Henry VII, a king with Welsh ancestry. This change suggests there were limits to English fifteenth-century preoccupations with Welsh threats. It also accentuates the significance of the rediscovery of Welsh pasts that took place from the fifteen-thirties, due to the monarchy's Welsh identity and the importance in English historical writing of men with marcher connections like Richard Grafton and Edward Hall.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
Schools:	School of Music, Humanities and Media
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Depositing User:	Sara Taylor
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2016 11:23
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2018 17:15
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/29430

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