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Urban assimilation in post-conquest Wales: ethnicity, gender and economy in Ruthin, 1282-1348

This output has been nominated for double-weighting because it generates an ‘extensive and complex’ thesis based on an ‘extensive, complex and difficult to access’ primary source. The evidence base for this volume comprises several thousand local town-court records – idiosyncratic, culturally Anglo-Welsh, and written in short-hand Latin – through which several key aspects of colonial town life have been painstakingly reconstructed. This volume presents, and rigorously defends, the thesis that during the English urban colonization of Wales (c.1282-1350) it was individual access to capital, rather than ethnic identity, which best dictated any one person’s range of experiences in colonial towns.