IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 823: Critical Border Studies, IV: Medieval Wales and the March in Crisis
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Mortimer History Society |
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| Organiser: | Amy Reynolds, School of History & Archaeology, Bangor University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rachael Harkes, Department of History, University of Bristol |
| Paper 823-a | Crisis? What Crisis?: The Beginnings of the Great Revolt of 1136 (Language: English) Index terms: Military History and Social History |
| Paper 823-b | Crisis? What Crisis? (Language: English) Index terms: Military History and Social History |
| Paper 823-c | Recovery and Reinvention (or Not Talking about the Crisis) in 15th-Century Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Military History and Social History |
| Abstract | This is the last of four sessions exploring the role that borders play in managing or inciting crisis, whether political, social, linguistic or emotional. The panel focuses on the the medieval March of Wales as a crucial borderland that determined relations between Welsh and English throughout the Middle Ages. The first paper considers the Welsh revolt against Norman settlements in south Wales, centred on the year 1136, and argues that Welsh military successes provoked a crisis among the Normans and seriously threatened their dominance in the region. The second paper discusses the aftermath of the crisis of 1284, when the last prince of Wales was killed, suggesting that the half-century from 1284 was a golden age of leadership and prosperity. The final paper examines a series of crises in fifteenth-century Wales, starting with the revolt of Owain Glyndwr, and uses historical and literary sources to determine the capacity of Welsh society to recover and survive. |