Bibliography
Huw
Pryce s. xx–xxi
Works authored
Pryce, Huw, Writing Welsh history: from the early Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Will be available in print and as e-book. Contents: Introduction -- PART I. DISTANT PASTS AND CONFLICTED PRESENTS: THE MIDDLE AGES -- 1. Prologue: themes and contexts -- 2. British pasts: the early Middle Ages -- 3. Saints, kings, and princes: Welsh pasts in an age of conquest, 1070-1282 -- 4. Curating the past in a conquered Land, 1282-1540 -- PART II. REAFFIRMATION AND ELABORATION, 1540-1770 -- 5. 'Our ancestors the ancient Britons', 1540-1620 -- 6. From the universal to the local: framing the history of Wales, 1540-1620 -- 7. Refurbishing the past: antiquarianism and historical writing, 1620-1707 -- 8. From druids to the last bard, 1707-1770 -- PART III. ROMANTICISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT, 1770-1880 -- 9. Civilization, liberty, and dissent, 1770-1820 -- 10. Cultural revival and romantic history: the world of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1820-1848 -- 11. 'Living in the past' and the challenges of Modernity, 1848-1880 -- PART IV. PROFESSIONALIZATION AND NATIONHOOD, 1880-2020 -- 12. Scientific history and national awakening, 1880-1920 -- 13. Consolidation and reappraisal, 1920-1960 -- 14. A new beginning? Writing Welsh history, 1960-2020 -- Conclusion.
Will be available in print and as e-book. Contents: Introduction -- PART I. DISTANT PASTS AND CONFLICTED PRESENTS: THE MIDDLE AGES -- 1. Prologue: themes and contexts -- 2. British pasts: the early Middle Ages -- 3. Saints, kings, and princes: Welsh pasts in an age of conquest, 1070-1282 -- 4. Curating the past in a conquered Land, 1282-1540 -- PART II. REAFFIRMATION AND ELABORATION, 1540-1770 -- 5. 'Our ancestors the ancient Britons', 1540-1620 -- 6. From the universal to the local: framing the history of Wales, 1540-1620 -- 7. Refurbishing the past: antiquarianism and historical writing, 1620-1707 -- 8. From druids to the last bard, 1707-1770 -- PART III. ROMANTICISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT, 1770-1880 -- 9. Civilization, liberty, and dissent, 1770-1820 -- 10. Cultural revival and romantic history: the world of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1820-1848 -- 11. 'Living in the past' and the challenges of Modernity, 1848-1880 -- PART IV. PROFESSIONALIZATION AND NATIONHOOD, 1880-2020 -- 12. Scientific history and national awakening, 1880-1920 -- 13. Consolidation and reappraisal, 1920-1960 -- 14. A new beginning? Writing Welsh history, 1960-2020 -- Conclusion.
Pryce, Huw, Native law and the church in medieval Wales, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Contents: Introduction; Part I, Co-operation and conflict: 1 Lawbooks and lawyers; 2 The sacred dimension to legal processes; 3 Ecclesiastical criticism of Welsh law; 4 Marriage and inheritance; 5 Testamentary disposition; Part II, Privilege and power: Introduction; 6 The legal status of clerics; 7 Ecclesiastical sanctuary; 8 Land and lordship; 9 Church and state; Conclusion.
Contents: Introduction; Part I, Co-operation and conflict: 1 Lawbooks and lawyers; 2 The sacred dimension to legal processes; 3 Ecclesiastical criticism of Welsh law; 4 Marriage and inheritance; 5 Testamentary disposition; Part II, Privilege and power: Introduction; 6 The legal status of clerics; 7 Ecclesiastical sanctuary; 8 Land and lordship; 9 Church and state; Conclusion.
Works edited
Contributions to journals
Pryce, Huw, and Gwilym Owen, “Medieval Welsh law and the mid-Victorian foreshore”, The Journal of Legal History 35:2 (2014): 172–199.
abstract:
In 1862 a text of medieval Welsh law, attributed to the tenth-century king Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good), was cited as part of the defence in a case, Attorney General v Jones, concerning disputed foreshore rights in Anglesey, north Wales. This article aims to explain why and how Welsh law, effectively abolished by the Acts of Union of 1536–43, was deployed as evidence in the case and how far this marked a readiness to accommodate the distinctive legal heritage of Wales within the framework of the nineteenth-century common law. As well as analysing the legal arguments presented, the article seeks to assess the broader significance of the case by setting it in the contexts of the Crown's increasingly vigorous claims to foreshores, the circumstances and attitudes of the real defendant, William Bulkeley Hughes, and antiquarian study of the medieval Welsh law-texts, including their use in previous mid-Victorian foreshore disputes.
abstract:
In 1862 a text of medieval Welsh law, attributed to the tenth-century king Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good), was cited as part of the defence in a case, Attorney General v Jones, concerning disputed foreshore rights in Anglesey, north Wales. This article aims to explain why and how Welsh law, effectively abolished by the Acts of Union of 1536–43, was deployed as evidence in the case and how far this marked a readiness to accommodate the distinctive legal heritage of Wales within the framework of the nineteenth-century common law. As well as analysing the legal arguments presented, the article seeks to assess the broader significance of the case by setting it in the contexts of the Crown's increasingly vigorous claims to foreshores, the circumstances and attitudes of the real defendant, William Bulkeley Hughes, and antiquarian study of the medieval Welsh law-texts, including their use in previous mid-Victorian foreshore disputes.
Pryce, Huw, “Early Irish canons and medieval Welsh law”, Peritia 5 (1986): 107–127.
abstract:
This paper deals with the relationships between the legal traditions of Ireland and Wales in the middle ages and identifies two groups of borrowings from the early eighth-century Collectio canonum Hibernensis in the lawbooks of medieval Wales. The borrowings all come from Books xxx and xxxiv (in Wasserschleben’s edition) and deal with deposits and sureties; however, the compilers of the Welsh lawbooks, whose earliest extant redactions date from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were plainly ignorant of the relevant passages’ ultimate Irish source. After close textual analysis of the passages in medieval Welsh law derived from the Hibernensis, the paper discusses how the Irish canons may have become known in Wales, and how they could have been transmitted into the surviving texts of Welsh law. Attention is drawn to the importance of the borrowings as a unique witness to the presence of the Hibernensis in medieval Wales, as well as to their significance for an understanding of the sources, ecclesiastical connections, and Irish affinities of medieval Welsh law.
(source: Brepols)
abstract:
This paper deals with the relationships between the legal traditions of Ireland and Wales in the middle ages and identifies two groups of borrowings from the early eighth-century Collectio canonum Hibernensis in the lawbooks of medieval Wales. The borrowings all come from Books xxx and xxxiv (in Wasserschleben’s edition) and deal with deposits and sureties; however, the compilers of the Welsh lawbooks, whose earliest extant redactions date from the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were plainly ignorant of the relevant passages’ ultimate Irish source. After close textual analysis of the passages in medieval Welsh law derived from the Hibernensis, the paper discusses how the Irish canons may have become known in Wales, and how they could have been transmitted into the surviving texts of Welsh law. Attention is drawn to the importance of the borrowings as a unique witness to the presence of the Hibernensis in medieval Wales, as well as to their significance for an understanding of the sources, ecclesiastical connections, and Irish affinities of medieval Welsh law.
(source: Brepols)
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Pryce, Huw, “Duw yn lle mach: briduw yng nghyfraith Hywel”, in: Morfydd E. Owen, T. M. Charles-Edwards, and D. B. Walters (eds), Lawyers and laymen. Studies in the history of law, presented to Professor Dafydd Jenkins on his seventy-fifth birthday, Gwyl Ddewi 1986, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1986. 47–71.
In reference works
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>.
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
Contributions: Madog ap Maredudd (d. 1160)
