Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1979 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660 W. H. C. Frend assesses the limited extent of the survival of Romano- British Christianity, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, XXX, 129 44. Problems involved in the study of the early church in Ireland, including the role of St. Patrick, engage the attention of P. A. Wilson in Studia Celtica, XIV/XV, 344-79. R. P. C. Hanson examines the chronology of the career of St. Patrick in Bull. John Rylands University Library of Manchester, LXI, 60-77. R. B. White speculates on the relationship between the possible re- occupation of the Roman fort of Aberffraw in the 5th or 6th centuries and the emergence of the ruling dynasty of Gwynedd, in his account of excavations at Aberffraw in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXVIII, 319-42. L. A. S. Butler considers the possible influence of a 'monastic city' model on early Welsh urban development, ibid., 458-67. The early court poetry of south-west Wales is evaluated by R. G. Gruffydd, in Studia Celtica, XIV/XV, 95-105. R. R. Davies analyses the relationship between royal authority and marcher liberties, in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., XXIX, 41-61. B. Coplestone-Crow refers to the marcher property and associations of the Baskerville family of Herefordshire, 1086-1300, in Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, XLIII, 18 39. R. A. Avent presents a third report, with illustrations, on excavations at Laugharne castle, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XV, 39 56. Recent archaeological discoveries are recorded by J. and P. Webster (Cardiff Castle), H. J. Thomas (Dinas Powys Common, Barry Old Village, Flatholm and Porthkerry Mill Site), C. Hayton and C. O. Jones- Jenkins (St. Fagan's chapel) and by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (Llandough, near Penarth, Whitewalls, Swansea, the Bear Hotel, Cowbridge) in Morgannwg, XXIII, 86-94. M. Miller assesses the importance in Welsh historiography of Geoffrey of Monmouth's king-list, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXVIII, 373-89. A re-interpretation of the purpose and significance of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae is suggested by V. I. J. Flint in Speculum, LIV, 447-68. G. Richards reflects on some structural aspects of the churches of Snowdonia, in Caernarvonshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XL, 47 68. E. Rowlands evaluates early references to land measurements, in Studia Celtica, XIV/XV, 270-84.