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Based on original research in the archive of the Council of Churches in Wales, this volume provides a history of the modern ecumenical movement in Wales--a movement that has attempted to foster closer collaboration among the churches and denominations and enabled working partnerships in response to national and international social, cultural, and economic issues. Providing a critical account of issues of both faith and order, as well as questi...

Rather than viewing nationalism as something that exists purely on a national scale, "Placing the Nation" examines how the importance of people embedded within particular places contributes to nationalism's cultural reproduction. Articulating this theme by examining the contributions of Aberystwyth citizens to the reproduction of Welsh nationalism since the 1960s, this volume demonstrates how national discourses and practices are generated wit...

This volume of essays focuses on religious reclusion in England--commonly referred to as anchoritic enclosure--which reached the height of its popularity, particularly for women, in the later Middle Ages. Examining this extraordinary phenomenon of voluntary, permanent solitary enclosure in a cell attached to a church from a number of different perspectives, "Rhetoric of the Anchorhold" demonstrates how the rhetoric of this form of enclosure be...

Offers an analysis of the career of Stanley Baker, one of the significant cinema figures to have come out of Wales and sheds considerable light on the image of Welsh national identity and masculinity which he projected.

The Breton language and culture has been in long and gradual decline since Brittany's incorporation into France in 1532--notwithstanding Brittany's successful reassertion of its linguistic and political identity over the past thirty years. "Brittany: A Concise History" is the ideal introduction for students of French and Breton history to this remarkable region, as well as an ideal travel companion for any inquisitive globetrotter who enjoys d...

The Breton language and culture has been in long and gradual decline since Brittany's incorporation into France in 1532--notwithstanding Brittany's successful reassertion of its linguistic and political identity over the past thirty years. "Brittany: A Concise History" is the ideal introduction for students of French and Breton history to this remarkable region, as well as an ideal travel companion for any inquisitive globetrotter who enjoys d...

Relates to one of Wales' most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009.

Challenges the critical view that Gothic is a vehicle for anti-Catholic, anticlerical sentiment. This book appeals the view that the Catholic motifs contained in Gothic novels (monks, nuns, abbeys, confessionals) signify anti-Catholic prejudice and anti-Church subversiveness on the part of the author and the audience.

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In 1910 Thomas Matthews published a collection of several Welsh documents held in the "Archives Nationales" in France. Covering such figures as Llewelyn Fawr, the Bishop of Menevia, and Owain Glyndŵr, these documents provide an important window into medieval Welsh history. With this volume, the editors have reproduced Matthews's edition and have supplemented it with essays that provide introductions to the original work and its author, conside...

In this volume, Delyth Morris surveys the use of the Welsh language in Wales today. Morris considers topics such as the spread of Welsh to the Internet, the use of the language by young people, bilingual education, emigration and its effect on the language, attitudes of immigrants towards the language, and language planning institutions and legislation. "Welsh in the Twenty-First Century" will be of interest both to academic audiences and the ...

The French novel's "return to the story" in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With "French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, "Simon Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers--Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, and Patrick Modiano--in the context of the current French ...

As Professor of English Law at the University of London, Sir David Hughes Parry QC laid the foundations for the development of the Department of Law at the London School and Economics into a centre of excellence in legal scholarship. This study offers an account of his career as a lawyer, legal scholar, university policy-maker and law reformer.

Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850. It casts light on episodes such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in 19th-century Cuba.

Until now most studies of the Welsh coal boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s have concentrated on the workers and the unions. Instead, in "The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920, " Richard Griffiths focuses his attention on the middle class and reveals how several of these individuals were--by hard work, perseverance, and often creative business practices--able to build up considerable wealth and power.

This book provides the visitor to the castles of Wales with a history and description of the main castles open to the public. There is an easy-to-understand outline of how castles developed, as well as features that give more detail of the different parts of a castle, such as keeps and gatehouses.

Combines elements of cultural studies and literary studies in order to present an integrated cultural representation of the emergence of a postmodern social constitution of contemporary Spain. This study examines postmodernity by relating it to those exclusive social and cultural experiences that are patently Spanish.

A cunning and successful literary forger, Iolo Morganwg has been a controversial figure within Welsh literary history since his death in 1826. During his lifetime, however, he was largely a figure on the margins of Welsh literary society, who found the task of getting his work into the coveted sphere of print culture a gargantuan one.

This text aims to help teachers, professionals and parents assess primary school student performance on specific mathematical topics. It focuses on all topics in the curriculum, presenting them one grade level at a time.