Search results for ""Author John Gwynfor Jones""
University of Wales Press The Welsh Gentry, 1536-1640: Images of Status, Honour and Authority
This stimulating and comprehensive study of the period between the establishment of the new Tudor administrative framework and the outbreak of the Civil War offers a well-grounded and fascinating survey of the attitudes, opinions and responses of the gentry to the political and religious circumstances in which they lived. The book discusses the ways in which the gentry, thrust into positions of prominence in the context of the Tudor state, interpreted that status and authority they enjoyed and the power entrusted to them. It surveys the influence which the concept of the ‘island empire’ had on attitudes to public roles and duties, and traces the extent to which loyalties to the Crown and to kindred groupings affected the image projected by the gentry in their political, religious and domestic roles. The book is given an added dimension by a consideration of gentry attitudes in Wales in the context of the humanist ideas current in Europe. This is a mature study based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, material from which has been successfully integrated into the text. It offers an insight into the perceptions and assumptions of an élite culture at a crucial time in that culture’s development.
£19.99
University of Wales Press Crefydd, Cenedlgarwch a’r Wladwriaeth: John Penry (1563-1593) a Phiwiritaniaeth Gynnar
A volume about John Penry and his contribution to the growth of Puritanism in England in the Sixteenth Century.
£16.99
University of Wales Press The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594): Updated Text and Commentary
Comprises an introduction to the background of "The Dialogue", written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire.
£10.64
University of Wales Press Crefydd a Chymdeithas: Astudiaethau ar Hanes y Ffydd Brotestannaidd yng Nghymru c.1559-1750.
This title brings together in one volume 12 essays (many previously published in Welsh journals) relating to the growth of Protestantism in Wales, from its introduction in the sixteenth century to the Methodist revival two centuries later. Full consideration is given to some of Wales' most prominent individuals during this period, including William Morgan, Maurice Kyffin, John Penry and Lewis Bayly. A variety of sources, including some literary and poetic, are used to further the debate, and the articles are arranged chronologically.
£25.00
