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The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594): Updated Text - download pdf or read online

By John Gwynfor Jones,J. Gwynfor Jones

ISBN-10: 0708322298

ISBN-13: 9780708322291

This quantity is generally divided into major sections. the 1st half contains a close advent to the history of "The Dialogue", written in 1594 by way of George Owen of Henllys, north Pembrokeshire, via an up to date model of the textual content with explanatory notes. George Owen was once the main observant Welsh historians of the overdue 16th century, and within the "Dialogue" he discusses the most services of criminal associations of presidency in Tudor Wales following the Acts of Union (1536-43). The discourse isn't only an outline of these associations yet fairly, within the kind of a discussion, it offers an research of the nice and undesirable features of the Tudor criminal constitution. Emphasis is put on the management of the Acts of Union, and comparisons are drawn with the tough penal laws which had formerly been imposed by way of Henry IV. Owen unearths the strengths and weaknesses of the Henrician payment, yet heartily praises the Tudor regime, concerning Henry VII and Henry VIII as liberators of the Welsh state which the writer, within the 'prophetic tradition', linked to the nation's historical future. during this 'Dialogue' Demetus is defined as a local Welsh gentleman and Barthol because the German legal professional from Frankfort traveling via Europe and staring at felony practices. The Socratic approach utilized unearths the Renaissance sort of accomplishing debates, a framework which supplies the paintings a lot of its attraction. The "Dialogue" is a useful Tudor resource which locations Welsh Tudor govt and management in a broader ancient perspective.

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