Английская Википедия:A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time
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A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time is a study of the county of Monmouthshire written by Sir Joseph Bradney and published by Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke of London between 1904 and 1932. The history comprised twelve volumes, based on six of the seven historic hundreds of Monmouthshire; Skenfrith, Abergavenny, Raglan, Trellech, Usk and Caldicot.
History
Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, Шаблон:Post-nominals (11 January 1859 – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and archaeologist. Born in Shropshire, he inherited the Tal-y-coed Court estate and a small fortune at an early age.[1] Settling in Monmouthshire, he held many public offices, as a county councillor, an alderman and as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1889. He was also a governor and a member of the councils of the National Library of Wales and the National Museum of Wales. He devoted much of his time to compiling a history of his adopted county.[2] In the preface to the first volume on the Hundred of Skenfrith, Bradney dedicated his History to Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar and went on to describe his methodology.Шаблон:Sfn This consisted of outline descriptions of many of the places and buildings within the county, together with detailed genealogies of the principal families associated with them. The early volumes also contained many photographs and illustrations, particularly of family crests, although these largely disappeared from the later volumes. By the time he came to complete his last volumes on the Hundred of Caldicot in the early 1930s, Bradney lamented that there were "fewer illustrations and fewer shields of arms than before; my excuse for this is the great cost of this work, and at the same time the diminution in the number of those who are able, owing to financial stress, to purchase expensive books".Шаблон:Sfn
Original arrangement: 1904–1932
Bradney's History comprises twelve volumes, divided by the traditional administrative areas of Hundreds. The work covers six of the seven hundreds of Monmouthshire.
- Volume I Part 1, The Hundred of Skenfrith, (1904)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume I Part 2, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1906)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume II Part 1, The Hundred of Raglan, (1911)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume II Part 2, The Hundred of Trelech, (1913)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume III Part 1, The Hundred of Usk, (1921)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume III Part 2, The Hundred of Usk, (1923)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume IV Part 1, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1929)Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume IV Part 2, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1932)Шаблон:Sfn
- Four volumes consisting of a List of Subscribers, Addenda and Corrigenda, and Indices of Names and Places.Шаблон:Sfn
Revised arrangement: 1991-1994
Between 1991 and 1994 the history was reprinted by Academy Books, and subsequently the Merton Priory Press, as an 80% sized facsimile. The work was arranged somewhat differently to the original history, the indexes were included in their respective Parts, and a fifth volume covering the last Hundred of Newport, was compiled from Bradney's manuscript notes by Dr Madeleine Gray. This last volume was published by the National Library of Wales. The re-ordered works were:
- Volume 1 Part 1, The Hundred of Skenfrith, (1991),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 1 Part 2a, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1992),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 1 Part 2b, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1992),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 2 Part 1, The Hundred of Raglan, (1992),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 2 Part 2, The Hundred of Trelech, (1992),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 3 Part 1, The Hundred of Usk, (1993),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 3 Part 2, The Hundred of Usk, (1993),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 4 Part 1, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1994),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 4 Part 2 The Hundred of Caldicot, (1994),Шаблон:Sfn
- Volume 5 The Hundred of Newport, (1993),Шаблон:Sfn
Assessment
Bradney's work remains a valuable source for information on the county's history but its weaknesses have long been recognised. The architectural historian John Newman, writing in his Gwent/Monmouthshire Pevsner, noted that "Bradney's approach, with its emphasis on genealogies and monumental inscriptions, was out-of-date in its own day; but his pages are full of clues and cannot be ignored".Шаблон:Sfn His family histories came in for particular criticism. Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in the first of their three-volume study Monmouthshire Houses, wrote of the pedigrees of the Monmouthshire families; "Sir Joseph Bradney gives a large number (which) trace their ancestry to Welsh kings or Norman lords but are, like those of their English contemporaries, mostly fictitious".Шаблон:Sfn Canon E. T. Davies, in his 1986 study, Bradney's "History of Monmouthshire": An Assessment, placed Bradney in a "particular tradition in which country gentlemen wrote for country gentlemen".Шаблон:Sfn Considering him more of a genealogist than a historian, Davies levelled two particular charges. Firstly, Bradney's reliance on weak sources for his early history of the county, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Iolo Morganwg, who had been exposed as a forger while Bradney was engaged on his work.Шаблон:Sfn Secondly, Davies critiqued Bradney's lack of interest in, and coverage of, Monmouthshire's later industrial history; "his vision fixed on the old, historic, agricultural Monmouthshire…, the inadequate treatment of a new industrial society emphasised a fatal weakness in Bradney's history".Шаблон:Sfn In the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust survey, Gwent Historic Churches carried out for Cadw in 1997, E. M. Evans noted that Bradney's lack of architectural training and understanding limited the value of his works, although Evans appreciated his "transciptions of funerary monuments, some of which no longer survive."Шаблон:Sfn Despite its deficiencies, Bradney's industry and the sheer scale of his investigative work continued to be recognised; the historian of Gwent, Raymond Howell, writing in 1988, praised his "monumental efforts of half a century ago".Шаблон:Sfn Twenty years later, in his foreword to the second volume of the Gwent County History, The Age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536, Martin Culliford acknowledged the debt to Bradney, and to William Coxe, when paying tribute to the contributors to the history; "[they] are no longer just following in the hallowed footsteps of Archdeacon Coxe and Sir Joseph Bradney but by now have overtaken them".Шаблон:Sfn
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