Llawysgrif Pomffred
An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B
Biographical note
Sara Elin Roberts, D.Phil (Oxon) (2001), is a lecturer at Bangor University. She has published extensively on medieval Welsh law, and medieval Welsh literature in general, including her important study of the legal triads, The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales.
Readership
Mainly a specialist text, and it will be used by anyone with a serious interest in medieval Welsh law. However it will probably appeal to scholars interested in other medieval legal traditions and historians working on medieval Wales and beyond.
Reviews
“…Roberts' book is a significant contribution, both to advancing understanding of the complexities of medieval Welsh law for specialists and to explaining this subject to those who are not specialists... Roberts has organized her text and translation so that each of the 2,292 sentences is labeled with a superscript number, allowing for very precise citation by sentence in her introduction, notes, and indices. The notes comment in very readable prose on various sections of the text and also provide clear definitions for many of the specialized Welsh-language legal terms... Roberts is a fine young scholar, best known for her edition of medieval Welsh legal triads that appeared in 2007. … this is a well-written and thoughtful book which will be useful to scholars who do not know Welsh.”
Frederick Suppe, Ball State University, The Medieval Review 11.11.29
Frederick Suppe, Ball State University, The Medieval Review 11.11.29
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