St David's and Dewisland

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. 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.

Founded during the sixth century on the banks of the River Alun in what is now Pembrokeshire, the parish of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, is one of the largest in West Wales. In St. Davids and Dewisland, David W. James offers a comprehensive social history of the parish and the land it occupies, also known as Dewislandthe Land of David. The volume covers the parishs early dayswhen it was a division of the Celtic Kingdom of Dyfedthrough to modernity, detailing the development of this colorful community against the backdrop of the broader history of Wales and Western Europe.

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