Tag: Medieval Britain

• Rhodri Mawr and the First Architecture of Welsh Power

  

  Introduction, Beyond Legend Rhodri Mawr, who died in 878, stands at a structural turning point in Welsh history. He was neither the first king in Wales nor the ruler of a unified nation in any modern sense. Yet during his lifetime the scale at which Welsh politics operated changed perceptibly. What had been a mosaic…

  Antony David Davies

  History

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• The Marcher Lords, the Private Warlords Who Invented Border Brutality

  

  There is a particular kind of violence that flourishes on borders. Not the open violence of battlefield armies, marching under banners and accountable, at least in theory, to a crown or parliament. But the private violence of semi-autonomous men, installed at the edge of a realm, given licence to do what the centre cannot openly…

  Antony David Davies

  History

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