There is no doubting the significance of the laws of Hywel Dda in developing a national identity for the Welsh people in Mediaeval Wales. Scholar Rees Davies maintains that Wales was a powerful legal entity; “A country culturally, linguistically and legally unified, which did much to counterbalance politically instability.” Agreeing, John Davies “The law is among the most splendid creations of the Welsh for centuries it was a powerful symbol of unity and identity” , Welsh economy minister Edwina Hart also states Hywel Dda was centuries ahead of his time “Wales has a very long history of innovation when it comes to the development and delivery of law.” I will evaluate the political, constitutional and legal significance of the laws and their …show more content…
Christianity also remained established in Wales, which played a substantial role in maintaining the Roman order. It is therefore likely that the Romans had an influence on the law in Wales, although due to the lack of surviving text from this period evidence is sparse. However Roman influences weren’t the only influences on Welsh culture as traditional tribal customs re-emerged with the departure of Roman Control, therefore it is likely that Celtic and Irish customs also played a significant role in influencing Welsh law. Prior to codification Wales lacked a single identity and was without cohesion, owing to the significance of the Laws of Hywel …show more content…
It is said that the King commanded that the laws be written in three parts; the law of his daily court; wherever he should be, the law of the land and the custom of each province so that the three parts of Wales; Gwynedd, Powys and the South had copies of the law readily available to them’ . The pragmatic and flexible nature of these laws is significant as it unified the provinces within Wales, this must be attributed to Blegywryd’s legal skill and ecclesiastical understanding unifying Church and state law, bringing into harmony the customs of the Welsh people and the Christian
The “writ of Henry I on local courts” is an administrative command issued around 1108 by Henry I, King of England during the Anglo-Norman period from 1100 till 1135. Henry addresses the writ to two individuals specifically in the country of Worcestershire, Samson and Urse of Abbetot, as well as to the barons of Worcestershire generally. Samson and Urse both held titles of prestige and power in Worcestershire County as the bishop and sheriff respectively at the time. The writ generally concerns the court systems, both royal and local, and more specifically delineates the jurisdictional spheres to be enjoyed by the particular courts concerning land disputes. Technically, the writ alludes to four distinct courts: the King’s Court, the Lord’s Court, and the County (or Shire) Court and the Hundred Court. Moreover, it refers to two types of people within Anglo-Norman society: the barons, or lords, and the vassals, or those who held the lands of, and at the pleasures of, the barons.
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Each time I perform I am taken into another place, another state of being. In this particular monologue, I was performing as Huldey from The Moors by Jen Silverman. This monologue was very interesting to me because I could relate to it but at the same time, the character was nothing like me. As a dramatic person, I was able to portray Huldey's actions and emotions without being tied to them in the way she is. This allowed me to be engaged with the audience which is part of step one in being a good actor. (Benedetti) Throughout this monologue I had to make several choices in order to ensure that it would not be monotonous. The monologue starts off as Huldey reading her diary. Her writing is boring but she thinks it to be the most amazing thing in the world and thinks of herself as a famous writer when in reality she is not. I had to portray this attitude with every line. Overall, I feel a did a pretty good job, However, there was one particular line that I could have placed more emphasis on and made a stronger choice. "There is nothing good in the world" could have been a really phenomenal line had I known what choice to make. In the future, I would rehearse the monologue more to see what feels right there and would be cohesive with the rest of the monologue.
Ford. P, (2008), ‘The Mabinogi and other Medieval Welsh Tales’, illustrated, annotated, California United States of America, University of California Press
One of the most influential and celebrated scholars of British consistutional law , Professor A.V Dicey, once declared parliamentary soverignity as “the dominant feature of our political insitutions” . This inital account of parliamentray soverginity involved two fundamental components, fistly :that the Queen-in-Parliament the “right to make or unmake any law whatever” and that secondly “no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.” . However this Diceyian notion though an established principle of our constitution now lies uneasy amongst a myriad of contemporary challenges such as our membership of the European Union, the Human Rights Act and a spread of law making authority known as ‘Devolution’. In this essay I shall set out to assess the impact of each of these challenges upon the immutability of the traditional concept of parliamentary sovereignty in the British constitution.
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. - Counsel [24] See footnote 22 – but page 61 [25] GEOFFREY, Marshall, Constitutional Theory, Clarendon Law Series, Oxford 1971 Chapter1 – the Law and the constitution, part 3. Dicey’s doctrine and its critics. [26] REGINA v HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY, Ex parte SMEDLEY, [COURT OF APPEAL], [1985] Q B 657, 19 December 1984, (c)2001 The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales [27] MITCHELL, JDB, Constitutional Law, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, W Green & SON LTD, 1968, Convention, page 31 [28] See footnote 22 but page 64
This will be discussed alongside the historical context of the early 1430s, which is approximately at the same time that this manuscript was most likely produced. This is the first analysis that specifically considers the ‘international relations’ that is presented on a genealogical chronicle roll. The chapter will assess the portrayals of Scotland, Wales and France on Canterbury MS 1, and what this can reveal about the English perceptions of these foreign territories. England during the late medieval period was preoccupied with Owain Glyndŵr’s rebellion, which accounts for the great interest that the roll has in Welsh affairs. Furthermore, the roll’s representation of the royal lineages of England and France united through hereditary descent offers yet another dimension of the genealogical manuscript.
For Gerald of Wales, religion was one of the most essential aspects of being a civilized human being. Therefore, when he wrote, The History and Topography of Ireland, he portrayed its inhabitants as subhuman and barbaric during his apparent travels to Ireland. As a colonizer, Gerald picked a far away place in which many had not been to, in order to establish them as the “other”. Unfortunately, for Gerald, he may have ridiculed the Irish for their lifestyle conveyed in his writing, but his exploitation of them most likely was done because he could in fact relate to them. In the book, The Postcolonial Middle Ages, Jeffery Jerome Cohen’s analysis in his chapter, “Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales”, closely focuses on Gerald’s cultural hybridity, which mirrors his accounts of the Irish. Although he deemed the Irish as barbaric, they were also hybrids, thus he also shared a feeling of displacement with them. Nonetheless, he still held himself to a higher degree because they did not properly celebrate Christianity, ultimately leading them to make other unpleasant decisions.
This brief journal entry will be exploring the work of Charlotte Ward in connection with The Mabinogion. Charlotte Ward examines how The Mabinogion has been translated while referencing scholars such as I.B. John who liken the tales to a pieced together “mosaic” (Ward, p.424). Ward focuses her essay on formulaic language as seen in the first branch of The Mabinogion in the context of Medieval European literature as a whole (ibid.). Ward then describes how the entire first branch is written in prose, consisting of no “englynion” [Welsh poetry] as seen in the fourth branch (ibid.).
We must consider whether they are “authoritarian law-makers, or if their profession makes them mere declarers of the law”. In this essay, I will argue the ways that judges do make law, as well as discussing the contrary. The English legal system is ostensibly embedded on the foundation of a ‘high degree of certainty with adaptability’ based on a steady ‘mode’ of legal reasoning. This rests on four propositions. 1.
The rule of law, simply put, is a principle that no one is above the law. This means that there should be no leniency for a person because of peerage, sex, religion or financial standing. England and Wales do not have a written constitution therefore the Rule of Law, which along with the parliamentary Sovereignty was regarded by legal analyst A.C Dicey, as the pillars of the UK Constitution. The Rule of Law was said to be adopted as the “unwritten constitution of Great Britain”.
The Anglo Saxon period is the oldest known period of time that had a complex culture with stable government, art, and a fairly large amount of literature. Many people believe that the culture then was extremely unsophisticated, but it was actually extremely advanced for the time. Despite the many advancements, the period was almost always in a state of war. Despite this fact, the Anglo-Saxon period is a time filled with great advancements and discoveries in culture, society, government, religion, literature, and art.
United Kingdom is a country with a distinctive set of legal system. It is fairly different from other countries having civil law based legal systems. The legal system in the United Kingdom consists of various sources of law, where other civil law based countries rely only on a written set of law. European influences on the English Legal System came much later in near decades. This essay will aim to examine the development of the English Legal System by reviewing applications of various sources of law in the English Legal System furthermore to discuss the recent European influences on the law of England.
Firstly in this report, I will be giving the different definitions of rule of law by different philosophers; secondly, I will be applying the rule of law to the English Legal system and thirdly I will be explaining separation of powers with a focus on the impartial judiciary. Finally, I will be using cases to support every detailed point given.
The courts of England and Wales acknowledge that the above must be something of value, in order to amount to consideration. A valuable consideration in the perspective of the English La...