Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales [Hardcover]

J. Beverley Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 31, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0708314740 | ISBN-13: 978-0708314746

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales is an outstanding work by an author with a perceptive understanding of the complexities of his subject. It is clearly, sometimes passionately, written and is destined to be the definitive work on this matter for many generations. This is the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1225-1282), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which he lived. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Without doubt, this magisterial book ... will long remain indispensable to the study of thirteenth-century Welsh history. It has the further merit of being beautifully produced, as we have come to expect from the University of Wales Press.' (Archaeologia Cambrensis) 'In this massive, detailed and magisterial study J. Beverley Smith has done Llywelyn ap Gruffudd full justice[...] the book represents the crowning achievement of a notable historian.' Welsh History Review

About the Author

J. Beverley Smith is Research Professor of Welsh History in the Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Tywysog Cymru and of numerous articles.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 664 pages
• Publisher: University of Wales Press (May 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708314740
• ISBN-13: 978-0708314746
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,035,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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