Summary The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogyon families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbours for control over Wales. Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J. E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes, and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions, and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Chronicling and its Contexts in Medieval Wales - HUW PRYCE Historical Writing in Europe, c. 1100-1300 - BJÖRN WEILER Historical Scholars and Dishonest Charlatans: Studying the Chronicles of Medieval Wales - BEN GUY Meet the Ancestors? Evidence for Antecedent Texts in the Late Thirteenth-Century Welsh Latin Chronicles - HENRY GOUGH-COOPER Bonedd y Saint, Brenhinedd y Saesson, and Historical Scholarship at Valle Crucis Abbey - BARRY J. LEWIS The Continuation of Brut y Tywysogyon in NLW, Peniarth MS 20 Re-visited - DAVID STEPHENSON O Oes Gwrtheyrn: A Medieval Welsh Chronicle - OWAIN WYN JONES The Cardiff Chronicle in London, British Library, MS Royal 6 B XI - GEORGIA HENLEY The Chronicle of Gregory of Caerwent - JOSHUA BYRON SMITH A Forgotten Welsh Chronology in Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MSS 5267B, Peniarth 50, and the Red Book of Hergest - REBECCA TRY * Brut Ieuan Brechfa: A Welsh Poet Writes the Early Middle Ages - BEN GUY Appendix: List of the Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March