Books by Matthew Stevens

This book traces the developing economy of medieval Wales across roughly two hundred years of English conquest and colonization, and more than two centuries of post-conquest occupation, ending with the 1536 union of England and Wales. It details the growth of the market economy and the creation of towns.

Uses a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282.