St David's and Dewisland - A Social History — A Social History

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Hanes cymdeithasol cynhwysfawr plwyf Tyddewi, mangre nodedig am gyfoeth hynafol Celtaidd a Normanaidd a phlwyf a brofodd newidiadau mawrion. Bu'r ardal hon yn gyrchfan ganolog ac anghysbell i bererinion ar hyd y canrifoedd. Argraffiad newydd.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

St David's and Dewisland is a comprehensive social history of a parish grounded in a rich antiquity; intensely conservative and at the same time subjected by history to enormous change; central and isolated; Celtic and Norman; austere; once rich, then poor, and throughout, in some form or other, a place of pilgrimage. New edition.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

1. In the Beginning 2. The Coming of Dewi Sant 3. The Cathedral Church 4. Rural Life 5. Trade and Communication 6. The Coming of Nonconformity 7. The Parish and its Administration – Past and Present 8. Church and Chapel in Education 9. Population Past and Present 10. Chronicles and Chroniclers

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

David W. James was an English teacher, and was Headmaster of Ysgol Dewi Sant, formerly St. David’s County School, between 1959 and 1974. After his retirement, he was able to dedicate his time to writing this social history of the city and parish of St David’s, which was his home for twenty one years.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

This is a new edition of a book first published in 1981, re-telling the story of a parish which is commensurate with an ancient division of a Celtic Kingdom, part of the cantref of Pebidiog, itself part of the Celtic Kingdom of Dyfed.