{"id":529,"date":"2026-11-04T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2026-11-04T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:53:07","slug":"gwent-county-history-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/?page_id=529","title":{"rendered":"Gwent County History Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second volume of the series was published in 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/County-Histories-Vol2-3.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/County-Histories-Vol2-3.pdf\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volume 2 contains thirteen chapters as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Transformation of Medieval Gwent <em>David Crouch<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Marcher Lordships: Origins, Descent and Organisation <em>Paul Courtney<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Settlement and Society <em>Jonathan Kissock<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Masonry Castles and Castle-building <em>John R. Kenyon<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Towns <em>Tony Hopkins<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Markets, Trade and Industry <em>Robert Weeks<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Parish Churches <em>Jeremy Knight<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Religious Orders <em>David H. Williams<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plague and Revolt <em>R. R. Davies<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lordship and Society in the \\fifteenth Century <em>Ralph A. Griffiths<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8216;Talm o Wentoedd&#8217;: The Welsh Language and its Literature, <em>c<\/em>.1070 &#8211; <em>c.<\/em>1530 <em>Dylan Foster Evans<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Early Tudors <em>W. R. B. Robinson<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Pre-Reformation Church <em>Madeleine Gray<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second volume of the series was published in 2008 Volume 2 contains thirteen chapters as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwenthistory.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}