This volume examines the impact of the Tudor political settlement on Wales between the Acts of Union (1536-43) and the Civil Wars. It was in many respects a dynamic age, an era when the creation of the national sovereign state in England deeply affected the political structure of Wales and when the Welsh gentry officially exercised a dominant role in its government and administration.Welsh national consciousness was at this time deeply affected by 'anglicising' forces, and an increasing number among the gentry gradually withdrew from their traditional duties and obligations in rural communities.It was also the age of Welsh adventurers and professional men, of commercial families, governors, lawyers and politicians in courts of law and parliament, and of pious Puritan fathers.Despite significant social and economic changes and the material advancement of the gentry, this period saw the survival of the Welsh language and its culture, of older concepts of gentility and many conservative features in the daily life and activity of all ranks in the community.

Early Modern Wales, C.1525-1640 (British History in Perspective)

History

Jones, J. Gwynfor

Europe

St.Martin's Press

<p>This work is intended to examine the main trends in Wales during the century following the Tudor settlement of Wales. Emphasis is placed on the social structure, the framework of government and administration, and the Reformation Settlement. The Stuart accession and its repercussions are also considered in relation to political, economic and cultural affairs, as well as the attitudes of the Welsh gentry to a new environment on the eve of the Civil War. The work makes ample use of contemporary sources to examine each aspect of the political, governmental and religious life of Wales.</p>

Early Modern Wales, c. 1525–1640 (British History in Perspective, 79)

Red Globe Press

<p>Stretching from the establishment of Tudor control over Wales through the disruptions of the Civil War, The Welsh Gentry tracks the ways that the Welsh nobility and upper classes reacted to the ever-changing political and religious circumstances of their day.  John Gwynfor Jones analyzes the attitudes of the gentry not only in the context of the increasingly complicated administrative state of the Tudors but also of the humanist ideas that were rapidly spreading across Europe at the time. Rooted in deep research in primary and secondary sources, The Welsh Gentry will be indispensable to those studying Wales or Britain in this period.</p>

Welsh Gentry 1536-1640: Image of Status, Honour and Authority (University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Wales Press

In 1910 Thomas Matthews published a collection of several Welsh documents held in the Archives Nationales in France. Covering such figures as Llewelyn Fawr, the Bishop of Menevia, and Owain Glyndŵr, these documents provide an important window into medieval Welsh history. With this volume, the editors have reproduced Matthews’s edition and have supplemented it with essays that provide introductions to the original work and its author, consider the documents from a contemporary perspective, revise Matthews’s original evaluation, and take note of recent developments in the scholarship relating to this field.

Thomas Matthews' Welsh Records in Paris: A Study in Selected Welsh Medieval Records

Rees, Dylan

Stretching from the establishment of Tudor control over Wales through the disruptions of the Civil War, The Welsh Gentry tracks the ways that the Welsh nobility and upper classes reacted to the ever-changing political and religious circumstances of their day.  John Gwynfor Jones analyzes the attitudes of the gentry not only in the context of the increasingly complicated administrative state of the Tudors but also of the humanist ideas that were rapidly spreading across Europe at the time. Rooted in deep research in primary and secondary sources, The Welsh Gentry will be indispensable to those studying Wales or Britain in this period.

The Welsh Gentry 1536 - 1640: Image of Status, Honour and Authority