Welsh People Possessed a Sense Common Heritage Essay -- Welsh history

In the introduction to the course, Gareth Elwyn Jones states that the specifics of the history of Wales have compelled its people to conceive of nationhood in quite divers(prenominal) terms to those of other nations , these other terms are a sense of community, language, culture and a feeling of common heritage . The course as a whole can then be considered as a brief investigation into these expressions of Welsh national identity.Perhaps Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was attempting to ossify these ephemeral qualities in the new-fangled thirteenth century when, in the words of Rees Davies, he sought to convert the primacy of Gwynedd among the native dynasties into the leadership of a united native Wales whose status as a separate and unitary principality would be acknowledged by the English Crown , although Davies has to concede that Llywelyns efforts were restricted to the pura Wallia of the unconquered parts of Wales , referring to those parts of the hoidenish that had so far avoided as similation into Anglo-Norman England in the preceding two centuries. Llywelyn was ultimately unsuccessful, perhaps in large part because the Wales that he sought to build was his individualized dynastic and political goal of the nation, and was not a goal held nor supported by many of his immediate contemporaries, including his brother . Similarly, Daviess interpretation of the Edwardian achievement of Wales has not been accepted wholesale, Antony Carr rejects Daviess notion that Edwards conquest was a national disaster and reminds us that for most people the new regime meant petty change and the traditional leaders of the community retained their power and influence. Indeed, in some ways Gwynedd may have been better off under Edward than it had been und... ...A182 catch 1 Introduction Wales and history, Milton Keynes, The Open University, 2009.Williams, G., Religion and belief in Barlow, H. (ed.) (2009) Small Country, Big History Themes in the History of Wales The Reader, M ilton Keynes, The Open University.Jones, G.E. Tudor Wales, http//openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/3805/via/oucontent/course/82/tudor_wales.pdf, accessed 11 January 2011.Jones, G. E. Wales 1880 1914, http//openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/3805/via/oucontent/course/82/wales1880_1914.pdf, accessed 11 January 2011Thomas, P. D.G., http//openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/3805/via/oucontent/course/82/theremakingofwalesintheeighteenthcentury.pdf, accessed 11 January 2011.Williams, G. A., Beginnings of Radicalism, http//openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/3805/via/oucontent/course/82/beginningsofradicalism.pdf, accessed 11 January 2011