Christianity, in its Catholic, Protestant and Nonconformist forms, has played an enormous role in the history of Wales and in the defining and shaping of Welsh identity over the past two thousand years. Biblical place names, an urban and rural landscape littered with churches, chapels, crosses and sacred sites, a bardic and literary tradition deeply imbued with Christian themes in both the Welsh and English languages, and the songs sung by tens of thousands of rugby supporters at the national stadium in Cardiff, all hint at a Christian presence that was once universal. Yet for many in contemporary Wales, the story of the development of Christianity in their country remains little known. While the history of Christianity in Wales has been a subject of perennial interest for Welsh historians, much of their work has been highly specialised and not always accessible to a general audience. Standing on the shoulders of some of Wales’s finest historians, this is the first single-volume history of Welsh Christianity from its origins in Roman Britain to the present day. Drawing on the expertise of four leading historians of the Welsh Christian tradition, this volume is specifically designed for the general reader, and those beginning their exploration of Wales’s Christian past.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
Rowan Williams
Preface
David Ceri Jones
Chapter 1. Roman Beginnings, c.AD 1–c.AD 400
Barry J. Lewis
Chapter 2. The Age of Conversion, c.400-c.600
Barry J. Lewis
Chapter 3. The Definition of Christian Wales, c.600-c.800
Barry J. Lewis
Chapter 4. Vikings to Normans, c.800-c.1070
Barry J. Lewis
Chapter 5. The Age of Definition and Hierarchy, c.1066-c.1200
Madeleine Gray
Chapter 6. Conquest and Apocalypse, c.1200-c.1420
Madeleine Gray
Chapter 7. Y Ganrif Aur: Christianity in Late Medieval Wales, c.1420-c.1530
Madeleine Gray
Chapter 8. Reformation Wales, 1530-1603
David Ceri Jones
Chapter 9. Securing a Protestant Wales, 1603-1760
David Ceri Jones
Chapter 10. Building a Nonconformist nation, 1760-1890
D. Densil Morgan
Chapter 11. Adapting to a Secular Wales, 1890-2020
D. Densil Morgan & David Ceri Jones
A Guide to Further Reading
Index
Über den Autor
• General readership: the book’s introductory nature will ensure that it will appeal to the widest possible readership. We envisage it filling a similar function as John Davies’, A History of Wales (1992) does for Welsh history more generally.
• Students beginning the exploration of Wales’ Christian past, either at advanced level in school or at undergraduate level. Each of the Welsh universities teaches courses on the history of Wales for which this book will prove indispensable.
• The substantial numbers training for various forms of Christian ministry in Wales today. This includes those in formal training, and the large number of people on part-time courses. For example, ‘Momentum’ (held in Aberystwyth) currently has 65 registered students doing a module on Christianity in Wales (taught by David Ceri Jones).
• Wider international readership to whom the Christian history of Wales is little known.
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