This is a new edition of the first full-length English-language study of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1225 - 82), prince of Wales. In this scholarly and lucid book, J. Beverley Smith offers an in-depth assessment not only of Llywelyn, but of the age in which he lived. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales is an outstanding work by an author with a perceptive knowledge of the complexities of his subject. This examination of the triumphs and subsequent reverses of a ruler of exceptional vision and vigour is a substantial contribution to our understanding of the nature of Welsh politics and the complexities of Anglo-Welsh relations. The author takes thirteenth-century Wales as a backdrop against which he analyses the relationship between a sense of nationhood and the practical realities of creating a structure to embrace a unified principality of Wales held under the aegis of the English Crown.

About the Author
J. Beverley Smith was Professor of Welsh History in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University.

Reviews
Without doubt, this magisterial book ... will long remain indispensable to the study of thirteenth-century Welsh history. It has the further merit of being beautifully produced, as we have come to expect from the University of Wales Press. Archaeologia Cambrensis In this massive, detailed and magisterial study J. Beverley Smith has done Llywelyn ap Gruffudd full justice[...] the book represents the crowning achievement of a notable historian. Welsh History Review



Book Information
ISBN 9781783160068
Author J. Beverley Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 680
Imprint University of Wales Press
Publisher University of Wales Press