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Urban Culture in Medieval Wales 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 1 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 2 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM Urban Culture in Medieval Wales Edited by Helen Fulton Cardiff UnivErsity of WalEs PrEss 2012 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 3 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM © 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 whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff, CF10 4UP. www.uwp.co.uk British Library CIP Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library isBn 978-0-7083-2351-9 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2503-2 (paperback) e-isBn 978-0-7083-2350-6 The rights of the Contributors to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, designs and Patents act 1988. typeset in Wales by Eira fenn Gaunt, Cardiff Printed by CPi antony rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 4 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM 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 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 5 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM 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 vi 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 6 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM 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 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 7 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 8 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM 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 00 Prelims_ Urban Culture 26_4_2012.indd 9 4/26/2012 1:38:01 PM

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