Life in Early Medieval Wales av Prof Nancy (Professor Emerita Professor Emerita Bangor University) Edwards

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Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.The period c. AD300¿1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in Early Medieval Wales considers how people lived in late Roman and early medieval Wales, and how their lives and communities changed over the course of this period. It uses a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on the growing body of archaeological evidence set alongside the early medieval written sources together with place-names and personalnames. It begins by analysing earlier research and the range of sources, the significance of the environment and climate change, and ways of calculating time. Discussion of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries focuses on the disintegration of the Roman market economy, fragmentation of power, and theemergence of new kingdoms and elites alongside evidence for changing identities, as well as impo