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The book explores the foundation, growth and flowering of medieval romance in Iceland.

Community development describes a professional intervention technique for building and strengthening communities. Over the years, the methods and values of this approach to planned social change have evolved. This book plots that history with care, and shows how the lessons of the past can be used to create a model for today that can be used in a wide variety of contexts.

This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity and economic interests in the face of international competition. During a so-called period of 'Enlightened Despotism', absolutist governments in Spain and Portugal sought to harness Enlightenment ideas to their policies of reform. The Iberian Enlightenment, however, did not rely exclusively on government sponsorship - it had existing foundations in sixteenth-century Spanish humanism and subsequent attempts at reform, and educated individuals in major cities frequently operated independently of government. The Enlightenment contributed greatly to the availability of potential political solutions to the urgent matter of political status, in the attempt to transform absolutist governments into constitutional systems and drawing in the process on the structures of medieval foundations, contemporary revolutions or less radical constitutional monarchies, or a combination of sources more closely aligned with Ibero-American realities.

A guide to the notebook poems and published poems of Dylan Thomas, drawing on his newly-discovered fifth notebook and other previously unpublished material.

Dyma gyfrol unigryw sy'n llawn syniadau ymarferol ar sut i gynorthwyo pobl i siarad a defnyddio'r Gymraeg.

The last two decades have seen big changes within a small nation; the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its political life and culture, has grown considerably in that time. This edited collection by a range of eminent Welsh writers, emerging academics and creative artists examines what is distinctive about Wales and Welshness in an interdisciplinary yet comprehensive manner. The core concepts of gender, class and identity are explored throughout the book, which presents twelve chapters in three distinct yet overlapping thematic sections: Wales, Welshness, Language and Identity, Education; Labour Markets and Gender in Wales; and Welsh Public Life, Social Policy, Class and Inequality. The chapters explore the role of men and women in Wales and of Wales itself as a nation, an economy, and a centre of partially devolved governance, raising questions related to equality, policy and progression. The collection also features photographs, graphic art and poetic verse that both represent and extend the central arguments of the book.

Dyma lyfr sy'n cynnig dathliad o rai o'n credoau pennaf fel cenedl, trwy gyflwyno ymddiddanion yn cynnwys ein henwogion pennaf, a thrafodaethau athronyddol ar sylwedd eu syniadau.

This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of different sources including physical remains, literary texts, artistic representations and medieval music.

Queer Wales provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales, launching an important discussion and suggesting that perhaps Wales has always been a bit of a queer place to live.

This research monograph is the first authoritative work on the office of the Welsh Language Commissioner and the associated Welsh language regulatory and statutory regime. In setting the Commissioner in context - in Wales, the UK and internationally - the work draws upon a rich variety of source material arising from fieldwork conducted in a number of jurisdictions. The research data includes, for example, an extensive series of documents obtained under a number of Freedom of Information applications, in-depth interviews with key actors from pertinent legislatures, governments, regulatory offices, interest groups and civic society. The linguistic coverage of source material includes English and Welsh, as well as, where relevant, Irish, German, Catalan, Spanish, French and Basque, in a publication which is multi-disciplinary in approach, engaging with the scholarly and professional literature in language policy and planning, socio-legal studies and the politics of language.

The Arthur of the North introduces the reader to tales about King Arthur and his knights, and the lovers Tristan and Isolt, that circulated in the Middle Ages and early modern times in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

A study of Welsh Nonconformist attempts to come to terms with the demands and challenges of an industrialized society.

A series of essays by experts on the enhancing subject of how our minds link together, now as in the past, through our experience of dreams, contact with the dead and dying, and listening to or creating music.

This collection of essays re-evaluates the significance of Gerald of Wales as a medieval Latin writer, presenting new research on lesser-studied aspects of his corpus and a fuller context for his more popular works.

Planning is a practical matter affecting important aspects of daily life, though planning law can prove complex and inaccessible with increasing divergence between England and Wales. This book will promote recognition of Welsh planning law in order to aid accessibility for all who practise in or who are involved in shaping development in Wales.

This collection of essays maps and analyses the ways in which cultural texts of all kinds are used to respond to, engage with and challenge crises in the contemporary Francophone world.

Administrative Justice is about public decision-making and the relationship between citizen and state in areas such as health, education, welfare and planning. It includes the law that applies to public body decision-making and the methods for challenging decisions.

Posthuman Gothic is a collection of scholarly essays discussing literary and filmic representations of the posthuman Gothic.

The subject of "Celtic Wales" is the archaeological and historical evidence for human settlement in what is now Wales, from about 700BC - AD1000. This book puts Celtic Wales in its European context, and tackles issues of academic debate concerning "Celticity" and ethnic identity.

A concise and authoritative survey of the Welsh- and English-language literatures of Wales from the earliest period up to the present day. This illustrated guide, containing extracts from original texts with English translations, is a revised version of Professor Dafydd Johnston's volume in the University of Wales Press Pocket Guide series, and includes a new chapter on contemporary writing.

Maria Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is, without doubt, her poetic reason and unique attempt to overcome the limiting coordinates of the framework of rationality established by the Enlightenment. Having spent forty-five years in exile, the relevance of this Spanish Republican thinker has only been recognised in recent decades, and this monograph explores the political dimension present throughout her work to argue for it as one of her key motivations. This monograph, therefore, reveals the political dimension inherent to Zambrano's proposal for an alternative rationality - that is, poetic reason - and, to this end, this book questions existing assumptions regarding Zambrano's thought and reframes it with its emphasis on the pivotal role of reason.

This book examines the importance of the Spanish heritage in Spanish-speaking Latin America following independence, and the connections that remained or were re-established between Spain and her former colonies in the Americas over the course of the nineteenth century.

A candid and highly amusing account of the former First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan's political journey in Wales and Westminster.

Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.

Le Bone Florence of Rome is a romance from late-medieval England related to Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. This fresh edition is accompanied by a complete translation and detailed introduction, designed to meet the needs of specialist and non-specialist readers.

Le Bone Florence of Rome is a romance from late-medieval England related to Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. This fresh edition is accompanied by a complete translation and detailed introduction, designed to meet the needs of specialist and non-specialist readers.

In this book, all of the Arthurian places and names in Wales have been traced back to their original sources to explore the reasons behind their creation.

An original, informed, and engaging reading of Kant's ideas on basic rights and human dignity, on how to eliminate war from international affairs, and on the reasons we have to believe that political progress is possible.