Author: William RICHARDS (LL.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Welsh Nonconformists' Memorial, Or, Cambro-British Biography
Author: William RichardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissenters
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Welsh Nonconformists' Memorial; Or, Cambro-British Biography; Containing Sketches of the Founders of the Protestant Dissenting Interest in Wales. To which are Prefixed, an Essay on Druidism and Introduction of the Gospel Into Britain. With an Appendix ... Edited, with Notes and Illustrations, by J. Evans, Etc
Author: William RICHARDS (LL.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Welsh nonconformists' memorial; or, Cambro-British biography. To which are prefixed, An essay on Druidism, with an appendix, including the author's minor pieces. Ed., with notes, by J. Evans
Author: William RichardsTransatlantic Brethren
Author: Hywel M. DaviesPublisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"Transatlantic Brethren recreates the Atlantic community of Baptists in Britain and America by focusing on the correspondence and connections of the Rev. Samuel Jones of Pennepek, near Philadelphia. Themes such as shared news of gospel success, the development of Baptist associations, and a learned ministry made for meaningful, if not always harmonious, communication between Baptists on both sides of the Atlantic during the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Writing Welsh History
Author: Huw PrycePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192692321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The study's broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring preoccupation is Wales's place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.
The Gentleman's Magazine
Author: The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
Author: The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Edward CavePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Writing a Small Nation's Past
Author: Neil EvansPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134786689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on the ways in which history was written in small, mainly stateless, nations. The comparative dimension is fundamental to the volume's aim, highlighting what was distinctive about Welsh historical writing and showing how the Welsh experience mirrors and illuminates broader historiographical developments. The book begins with an introduction that uses the concept of historical culture as a way of exploring the different strands of historiography covered in the collection, providing orientation to the chapters that follow. These are divided into four sections: 'Contexts and Backgrounds', 'Amateurs and Popularizers', 'Creating Academic Disciplines', and 'Comparative Perspectives'. All these themes are then drawn together in the conclusion to examine how far Welsh historians exemplify widespread trends in the writing of national history, and thereby point-up common themes that emerge from the volume and clarify its broader significance for students of historiography.
Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain
Author: Martha VandreiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198816723
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse, from the early-modern rediscovery of the works of Tacitus to the first historical films of the early twentieth century. In doing so, the book seeks to demonstrate the continuity and persistence of historical ideas across time and throughout a variety of media. This focus on continuity leads into an examination of the nature of history as a cultural phenomenon and the implications this has for our own conceptions of history and its role in culture more generally. While providing contemporary contextual readings of Boudica's representations, Martha Vandrei also explores the unique nature of historical ideas as durable cultural phenomena, articulated by very different individuals over time, all of whom were nevertheless engaged in the creative process of making history. Thus this study presents a challenge to the axioms of cultural history, new historicism, and other mainstays of twentieth- and twenty-first- century historical scholarship. It shows how, long before professional historians sought to monopolise historical practice, audiences encountered visions of past ages created by antiquaries, playwrights, poets, novelists, and artists, all of which engaged with, articulated, and even defined the meaning of "historical truth". This book argues that these individual depictions, variable audience reactions, and the abiding notion of history as truth constitute the substance of historical culture.