Description
In the modern era, we think of Wales as one part of the United Kingdom, but it was originally an independent territory in Britain and wasn’t known as Wales. In fact, the territory of Wales and the identity of the Welsh people were a product of military and political conflict during the Middle Ages. In this class, Lizabeth Johnson examines how Wales and the Welsh came to be.
Lizabeth Johnson received her PhD in medieval history from the University of Washington. Her graduate studies included medieval history, renaissance and reformation history, and late antiquity. Johnson’s specific area of research is medieval Welsh history.