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Gwent is sometimes presented as the most Anglicized county of Wales. This book corrects the perspective by tracing the Welsh cultural tradition of the county.

A history of religion in Wales between 1588, when the first complete Welsh Bible was published, and 1760. The book describes the development of Christian thought and how biblical religion evolved in response to social and political change.

This book explores the relationship between religion and identity in the lives of Welsh women today. Manon Ceridwen James looks at the recent history of religion in Wales, as well as women's writings and the way in which women have faced and continue to face unique pressures to be respectable.

Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided upon nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and its component nations and, innovatively, within those national spaces. Concentrating upon fictions depicting England, Scotland and Wales specifically, Gothic Britain comprehends the generic possibilities of the urban and the rural, of the historical and the contemporary, of the metropolis and the rural settlement - as well as exploring, uniquely, the fluid space that is the act of travel itself. Reading the textuality of some two hundred years of national and regional identity, Gothic Britain interrogates how the genre has depicted and questioned the natural and built environments of the Island of Great Britain.

This book explores the exciting world of Celtic mythology and demonstrates how it can be related to its prehistoric Indo-European roots.

This book uses archaeological, historical and literary evidence to capture for the first time the medieval Welsh on the move between the fifth and fifteenth centuries.

This innovative study examines the spiritual and sexual experiences of the Welsh in the period 1870-1945.

A collection of commemorative essays and addresses by the Professor of Christian Doctrine at Aberystwyth University which probes and reflects theologically upon aspects of Christianity's intellectual and historical heritage.

The first book-length study of its kind, South African Gothic maps the poetics, origins and functions of an underexplored Gothic tradition in South African literary imaginaries.

This volume invites readers to explore the stylistic resources of Welsh by comparing twentieth and twenty-first century prose in Welsh and in English translation (as well as the reverse direction). This technique brings out numerous linguistic and stylistic devices that reflect the characteristic idiom and expressive spirit of idiomatic Welsh writing.

Cyfrol o feirniadaeth lenyddol gymharol, sy'n dod a gwaith awduron Cymraeg a Saesneg ynghyd i drafod y portread ffuglennol o amlddiwylliannedd Cymru, ac i awgrymu sut y gall dwyieithrwydd Cymru gynnig cyfle i greu cymdeithas Gymreig fwy cynhwysol.

Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women's science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain's greatest scientist.

This activity pack is divided into two sections, 1485-1760 and 1760-1914. Each section opens with an overview of major themes and developments within the period, before going on to consider the important turning-points of change.

A concise introduction to the events which led to the partition of Ireland, with a discusion of the subsequent development of the two Irish states which emerged from the events of 1920-1922.

This is a study of the landed gentry of north Wales from the Edwardian conquest in the thirteenth century to the incorporation of Wales in the Tudor state in the sixteenth.a The limitation of the discussion to north Wales is deliberate; there has often been a tendency to treat Wales as a single region, but it is important to stress that, like any other country, it is itself made up of regions and that a uniformity based on generalisation cannot be imposed.a This book describes the development of the gentry in one part of Wales from an earlier social structure and an earlier pattern of land tenure, and how the gentry came to rule their localities.a There have been a number of studies of the medieval English gentry, usually based on individual counties, but the emphasis in a Welsh study is not necessarily the same as that in one relating to England.a The rich corpus of medieval poetry addressed to the leaders of native society and the wealth of genealogical material and its potential are two examples of this difference in emphasis.

The first in-depth study of the Communist Party's attitude to devolution in Wales, to Welsh nationhood and Welsh identity, examined within the context of the rapid changes in twentieth century Welsh society, debates on devolution and identity on the British left, the role of nationalism within the communist movement, and the interplay of international and domestic factors.

Ymgais sydd yma i geisio gweld sut y mae diwinyddiaeth Gristnogol yn ymateb i wyddoniaeth, a sut y mae gwyddoniaeth yn effeithio ar ein dirnadaeth Gristnogol.

This book provides a historical, political and legal analysis of the sweeping contemporary transformation of the British and French constitutional frameworks, which culminated in the 2016 referendum on Britain's EU membership. It offers a unique Franco-British perspective on unprecedented constitutional change with a particular emphasis on Wales.

The first nationwide historical study of Jewish communities and individuals in Wales, stretching from the establishment of the first Welsh-Jewish community in Swansea in 1768 to the present situation of Welsh Jewry in the early twenty-first century.

This book considers contemporary Polish migration to three distinctly different areas of Wales, and accounts for the migrants' unexpectedly long-term stay in the UK as well as the impact of long-term migration.

This text charts and accounts for the remarkable growth of the Roman Catholic Church in Wales between the formation of its Province of Wales in 1916 and the commencement of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. It goes on to examine reaction to the expansion, both from within and outside the church.

This book tells the story of the spirited Welshman, Evan James Williams, one of Wales's most eminent scientists, who became a world-renowned atomic physicist.

Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil provides new readings and fresh perspectives on the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), whose socially and politically engaged work remains a key reference for our understanding of the making of modern Brazil and continues to reverberate in the country's contemporary context.

The Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy is the focus of this new collaborative history.

The book explores the foundation, growth and flowering of medieval romance in Iceland.

Community development describes a professional intervention technique for building and strengthening communities. Over the years, the methods and values of this approach to planned social change have evolved. This book plots that history with care, and shows how the lessons of the past can be used to create a model for today that can be used in a wide variety of contexts.