St Davids Episcopal Acta, 1085-1280.(Review)

Historians working on the medieval Welsh church are more poorly served than their English counterparts, who have had the products of the English Episcopal Acta project to sustain their endeavours. The South Wales Record Society have gone some way towards remedying this, with David Crouch's 1988 edition of the Llandaff episcopal acta, and, more recently, with St Davids Episcopal Acta, 1085-1280, ed. Julia Barrow (Cardiff: South Wales Record Society, 1998; pp. xvii+195+plates. 25 [pounds sterling]). Dr Barrow's edition is very welcome, if for no other reason than that it looks at the see of St Davids, and the acts of its bishops during the period when attempts were being made to …