Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales

Abstract

Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales Church influenced and participated in the production of the lawbooks, and. law may have had for many, becoming a competitor against the native Welsh. Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales-Oxford Scholarship Celtic Law Papers Cyfraith Hywel-The Law of Hywel List of books and articles about Medieval Church Online Research. Nevertheless, many Welsh monasteries refused to give up their old traditions: Giraldus.

Bayvil in Cemais: An Early Medieval Assembly Site in South-West Wales?

“…There are no indications of high-medieval proto-urban activities here apart from its proximity to a shrunken hamlet around Bayvil church, although an early 19th-century smallholding at 36 James 1987, 68;Pryce 1993, 172, 186-8. 37 Hughes 1991, 71.…”

Kings and Lords in Tenth‐Century Cornwall

“…Such generalizations about slavery are fraught with problems, but if one examines the rich body of twelfth‐ and thirteenth‐century Welsh vernacular law, from both Deheubarth in the south and Gwynedd in the north, slavery can be seen as a widespread and flourishing institution. This is unlikely to have been a recent innovation. If we throw into this the consciously archaizing tendencies of Welsh legal writers, for instance the thirteenth‐century compilers of Llyfr Iorwerth or Llyfr Blegywryd , then it is probably fair to argue that slavery was on the wane in twelfth‐ and thirteenth‐century Wales, but that these writers were harking back to a period when it was indeed flourishing.…”

Land, People and Power in Early Medieval Wales: The cantref of Cemais in comparative perspective

“…Work by Rees Davies, Pryce and William Rees presents the high medieval historical perspective (R.R. Pryce 1993;Rees 1924). Archaeological understanding, summarised in the CBA's Regional Research Framework, is restricted by limited developer-led and university investigations, acid soils, unfurnished burials and an aceramic, largely coinfree material record (Edwards et al 2011(Edwards et al , 2016.…”