`It is only right that a history of Wales, even though it has to be
written in English, should vibrate to the strings of the harp ...
enough historical material of a less exotic kind appears in a book
which, as the massive bibliography testifies, crowns the work of
serried ranks of recent scholars ... This is history written with
both head and heart ... a tribute both to Wales and to the most
generous of its historians.'
Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies
`A comprehensive survey of his chosen field by a great master of
his craft ... a book to be savoured, enjoyed, and resorted to time
and time again - unquestionably the definitive late
twentieth-century view of Welsh history between roughly 1415 and
1642.'
Book News From Wales
`It is gratifying to know that at last the full-scale history of
Wales can now be written from the earliest times down to the modern
age. Four of the six projected volumes in this excellent series
have already appeared all of which give the development of the
Welsh nation the treatment it fully deserves. This is an excellent
volume written in a pleasant and lucid manner which makes it most
enjoyable to read.'
The Historical Association
`The time-span of the volume is remarkable ... there is an interest
in Europe in the survival of national identities, even in the
absence of national political institutions. Those new perspectives
should help to gain for this book, the fruit of a lifetime's work
by a great scholar, the widespread recognition it deserves.'
English Historical Review
'The sheer intellectual energy and learning displayed in the
History of Wales is a matter for wonder.'
Planet
'No reader of this book can doubt that it is a major work of
historical literature, fully living up to the high standards
already set in the new History of Wales series ... a magnificent
account of two critical centuries of Welsh history.'
Penry Williams, New College, Oxford. Welsh History Review
'a major work of historical literature, fully living up to the high
standards already set in the new History of Wales series'
T. Boyns, Cardiff
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