Grammar and Poetry in Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales

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Focused on the evolution of medieval Welsh bardic grammars, this book explores their transformation amidst significant social and political changes in Wales. Originally vernacular poetic guides, these texts were continually revised from the early fourteenth to the sixteenth century by various figures, including bards and humanists. The author provides a detailed textual analysis of these revisions, contextualizing them within the historical landscape, thereby illuminating the development of Welsh literary and scholarly traditions over two centuries.