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23 de mai. de 2024 · In the fraught English–Welsh borderlands of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, during the decades spanning Owain Glyndŵr’s rebellion and the beginning of the Wars of the Roses, when ideas about Welsh history and prophecy were particularly potent, a short chronicle abbreviating Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum (Historia regum Britanniae) made its way from South ...
17 de mai. de 2024 · Let’s picture the late 1390s and early 1400s, the years when Owain Glyndŵr was transformed from loyal subject of the English crown to rebel Prince of Wales. People travelled. In Glyndŵr’s time knights, yeomen, and peasants joined crusades against the Baltic pagans, or the Turks threatening Hungary’s borders.
Há 6 dias · (For those new to Owain Glyndŵr, The Prince of Wales, read the series so far) You may remember (or like the Prince, you may not) that at the end of Episode 20 of our series, Seren, a young person, ‘had something to say.’ We have no idea what she wanted to declare because the grown-ups, the older people in the room as it were, at that point embarked on a four episode diversion to discuss ...
22 de mai. de 2024 · Saint Ieuan 6th,century Welsh saint of Llantrisant on the Isle of Anglesey. Ieuan ab Owain Glyndŵr illegitimate son to Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Prince of Wales. Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal Welsh poet – first recorded Welshman to write an English poem.
5 de mai. de 2024 · (For those new to Owain Glyndŵr, The Prince of Wales, read the series so far) You may be wondering how an attempt to rewrite a scene in a Shakespeare play, the performance of which was brutally cut short, could have become such a cause célèbre, a casus belli, an unlikely event around which a wider rebellion could coalesce? Well, wonder no longer. The fact is that it was the very act of ...
12 de mai. de 2024 · It’s important to stress one simple fact: Wales had no universities at the time. Creating two of them had been part of Owain Glyndŵr’s plan, but his fifteenth-century rebellion failed, and Wales would have to wait until the nineteenth century before its own universities would be established.
12 de mai. de 2024 · (For those new to Owain Glyndŵr, The Prince of Wales, read the series so far) For many years Owain Glyndŵr, The Prince of Wales (imaginary) has felt, privately and secretly, intense shame and regret over his outburst toward Thalia during the performance of Henry IV while they were still at school. The fact that Thalia left town shortly after this event never to return has only sharpened the ...
