The gwely as a tenurial institution

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167 - 188; figs; refs
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The paper looks at the gwely, an institution in the social and economic organization of medieval Wales based on lineage and also the term for the territory associated with the lineage. Several examples are considered, as are development, historiography, and associated 'ornaments' or resources of the territorial gwely. Dodds, Damaris
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8G, 8A

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