Wealth, status and ‘race’ in the Ruthin of Edward II‘Race’ has been used here only in response to the earlier historiographical context concerning the interaction of English and Welsh cultural practitioners in the Middle Ages, and for the convenience its succinctness affords by comparison to more politically correct alternatives. It here bears no correlation to any of the negative baggage which has been heaped upon the word in preceding decades.
STEVENS, MATTHEW; STEVENS MATTHEW; University of Wales
Журнал:
Urban History
Дата:
2005
Аннотация:
This article is a case study of the racially mixed, seigniorial borough of Ruthin (modern Denbighshire) in the early fourteenth century. It seeks to explore material inequalities and social aspects of the integration of English and Welsh burgesses in an urban setting. It concludes that whilst a disproportionate quantity of wealth did lie with the boroughʼs English residents, Welsh burgesses enjoyed nearly comprehensive access to the communityʼs wealth-generating and status-affirming activities. And, the behaviour of Ruthinʼs elites was more strongly dictated by their socioeconomic strata than racial background.
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