. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ury, and he fondly hojsed to see a Welsh archbishopricestablished by Papal authority. The Pojje was asked to estab-lish two universities in Wales, in order, for one thing, to pleasethe students and bards who had done so nnich for The character of Welsh literature had changed with the advent weisti of Glendower. The love .songs of Dafydd ab Gwilym, whichPoetry. mark the golden age of Welsh poe
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ury, and he fondly hojsed to see a Welsh archbishopricestablished by Papal authority. The Pojje was asked to estab-lish two universities in Wales, in order, for one thing, to pleasethe students and bards who had done so nnich for The character of Welsh literature had changed with the advent weisti of Glendower. The love .songs of Dafydd ab Gwilym, whichPoetry. mark the golden age of Welsh poetry, give jjlace to the martialodes of lolo Goch—a more masculine and more vigorous litcra-turi\ but with the grace of the of it perishing. HutGlendower himself believed in education. He knew that anindependent church must draw its priests from the colleges olits own countrv, and his own love for reading made this studentof Dante aim at giving his people intellectual as well as jioliticalfreedom. His plans were. fo|- the iininiiit. doouud to failure Tliogreat Frcnc-h army wliidi lamlrd at Milford Haven to help himcould not invade Englaml and jmt an cud to the struggle; it. 394 THE (LOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. 11399 His LaterYears. TheAbsorption ofWales. pierced as far as Worcester, and then the wliule of England wasroused. So vast a garrison could not be maintained in Wales asa purely defensive army, and it had to return. The weatherfought against Glendower as it had fuught against Henry. Thecondition of the labourer did not become immediately 1407 the winter was so hard that nearly all the little birdsdied. Owens magic, it was believed, coidd conunand storms,but he could nut make the siui to shine and the wheat to became more and more dithcult to find allies ; the activity ofyoung Henr}- crushed one reliellion after the other. OwensBishop of Bangor was with the Earl of Northumberland atliraudiam Moor in 1-K)8, and a vigorous warfare was maintai
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