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The Principality of Wales in the Late Middle Ages: Structure and Personnel of Government by Ralph A. Griffiths (Hardcover, 1972)

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Griffiths, Ralph A. Author: Griffiths, Ralph A. 1st Edition Hardcover University of Wales Press, 1972 Good in Good Dust Jacket. Publisher: University of Wales Press, 1972. 1st Edition. Language: English.

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This is a study of royal government in the southern counties of the principality of Wales between the beginning of Edward I's conquest in 1277 and Henry VIII's `act of Union'. This reprinted edition of the book, first published in 1972, includes a new introduction to incorporate recent writings on the subject. Part I discusses the administrative framework of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire and the way in which it evolved in response to the political needs and reactions of governors and governed. Part II is a comprehensive biographical calendar of the officers of English kings and princes in south Wales, based on a wide range of published and unpublished sources - their careers, experience and wealth. The book has been of great value to political and administrative historians, not only of Wales but of England too, and it also retains a value for students of Welsh society, and for literary and personal-name scholars. No comparable comprehensive study of the involvement of men (rarely of women) in public service in late-medieval Wales (or indeed England) exists for this level of society and government.