Urban Culture in Medieval Wales

351 Pages·2012·5.437 MB·English

by  Helen Fulton (editor)

Urban Culture in Medieval Wales
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Urban Culture in Medieval Wales
Edited by
Helen Fulton
Cardiff
UnivErsity of WalEs PrEss
2012
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© The Contributors, 2012
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form
(including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and
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British Library CIP Data
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isBn 978-0-7083-2351-9 (hardback)
978-0-7083-2503-2 (paperback)
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and Patents act 1988.
typeset in Wales by Eira fenn Gaunt, Cardiff
Printed by CPi antony rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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Contents
acknowledgement vii
list of Maps, figures and tables ix
notes on Contributors xiii
introduction: The impact of Urbanization in Medieval Wales 1
Helen Fulton
1 Who Were the townsfolk of Medieval Wales? 9
Ralph A. Griffiths
2 in search of an Urban identity: aspects of Urban society in
late Medieval Wales 19
Llinos B. Smith
3 The townscape, 1400–1600 51
Richard Suggett
4 towns in Medieval Welsh Poetry 95
Dafydd Johnston
5 social Conflict in Welsh towns c.1280–1530 117
Spencer Dimmock
6 anglo-Welsh towns of the Early fourteenth Century:
a survey of Urban origins, Property-Holding and Ethnicity 137
Matthew Frank Stevens
7 The townswomen of Wales: singlewomen, Work and service,
c.1300–c.1550 163
Deborah Youngs
8 Castle and town in Medieval Wales 183
Dylan Foster Evans
9 The City of Chester in Gruffudd ap Maredudd’s Awdl i’r
Grog o Gaer 205
Catherine McKenna
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Contents
10 fairs, feast-days and Carnival in Medieval Wales:
some Poetic Evidence 223
Helen Fulton
11 Entertainment and recreation in the towns of Early Wales 253
David Klausner
12 The Welsh diaspora in Early tudor English towns 271
Peter Fleming
select Bibliography 295
index 317
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Acknowledgement
While this book was in the final stages of preparation, the funding base
of the University of Wales Press was changed by the Welsh Government. i
am extremely grateful to the research institute for arts and Humanities at
swansea University, under the leadership of Professor Chris Williams, with-
out whose financial support this book could not have been published.
Helen fulton
University of york
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List of Maps, Figures and Tables
Maps
Map 1 Main market towns and abbeys in medieval Wales
Map 2 Wales and England after 1284
Map 12.1 The Welsh population of early-tudor Bristol: zones
Figures
figure 3.1 llanidloes Market Hall
figure 3.2 old Courthouse, ruthin
figure 3.3 Bull Hotel, denbigh
figure 3.4 Bull Hotel, denbigh (detail)
figure 3.5 Cross Keys inn, swansea
figure 3.6 George & dragon Hotel, Beaumaris
figure 3.7 George & dragon Hotel, Beaumaris (detail)
figure 3.8 Hen Blas, Beaumaris
figure 3.9 aberconwy House, Conwy
figure 3.10 royal House, Machynlleth
figure 3.11 Halls and shops at town Hill, Wrexham
figure 3.12 High street, denbigh
figure 3.13 Whitehall, Presteigne
figure 3.14 st Giles’s Church, Wrexham
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