 | The Age of Conquest: Wales 1063-1415: Age of Conquest - Wales, 1063-1415 Vol 2 (History of Wales) by R. R. Davies
Buy new: £31.80 / Used from: £23.99 If you buy only one book on medieval Wales, make it this one. Sadly, Sir J.E. Lloyd's volumes on medieval Wales are out of print.
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 | Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd: Prince of Wales by J.Beverley Smith
Buy used from: £47.22 A great book and the most detailed work on any Welsh prince.
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 | Medieval Wales, 1064-1521 (British History in Perspective) by A.D. Carr
Buy used from: £58.84 Good if you only want a very brief overview of the period.
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 | The Lord Rhys by Roger Turvey
Buy used from: £19.98 The Lord Rhys of Deheubarth.
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 | The Welsh Princes, 1066-1282 (The Medieval World) by Roger Turvey
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £12.49 Not just a sketch of the period.
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 | The Welsh Kings: The Medieval Rulers of Wales by K.L. Maund
Buy used from: £10.00 A wider chronological sketch than most books, this work has interesting chapters on early kings.
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| Brut y Tywysogion, or Chronicle of Princes: Peniarth MS 20 Version (History & Law)
Buy used from: £152.95 Perhaps the best English translation of the chronicle of the princes, a key text for the study of medieval Wales.
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 | Law of Hywel Dda: Law Texts of Medieval Wales (Welsh Classics)
Native Welsh law.
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 | The Acts of Welsh Rulers: 1120-1283 by Huw Pryce
Buy used from: £83.24 Collection of surviving documents issued by the various princes of Wales.
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 | The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (Classics) by Gerald of Wales Giraldus Cambrensis
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £3.23 Account by a Anglo-Welsh clergyman of the journey around Wales he made to promote the crusade in the mid 1180s and also an ethnographical account of the people of the country. A fascinating read.
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 | Vita Griffini Filii Conani: The Medieval Latin Life of Gruffudd Ap Cynan
Buy used from: £134.77 The most recent translation of the life of Gruffudd ap Cynan, 1054-1137.
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 | Wales in the Early Middle Ages (Studies in the early history of Britain) by Wendy Davies
Buy used from: £22.00 |
| The Welsh Wars of Edward I: A Contribution to Medieval Military History Based on Original Documents (Medieval Military Library) by John Edward Morris
Buy used from: £21.94 |
 | The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr by R. R. Davies
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £14.25 Brilliant account of Wales in the early fifteenth century. R.R. Davies is perhaps the key historian to read on the topic of medieval Welsh history.
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| Welsh Military Institutions: c.633-1283 (Studies in Welsh History) by Sean Davies
Buy used from: £47.02 |
 | Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300 (The Wiles Lectures) by R.R. Davies
Buy new: £52.25 / Used from: £21.35 Puts English political relations with Wales into a "British" context. Is finally becoming avaliable in paperback.
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 | The Political Development of the British Isles 1100-1400 (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Robin Frame
Buy new: £27.55 / Used from: £7.34 This book is another that writes of "British" history.
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 | The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
Buy new: £8.07 / Used from: £5.19 A must read work of medieval history, puts the issues of conquest and colonisation in a European context.
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 | The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 (Ford Lectures) by R. R. Davies
Buy new: £27.55 / Used from: £15.98 The focus is more on cultural interactions between England and the other countries of Britain.
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 | Wales and the Wars of the Roses (Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks) by H.T. Evans
Buy used from: £3.99 Wales in the fifteenth century.
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| The Governance of Gwynedd (Studies in Welsh History) by David Stephenson
Buy new: £42.75 / Used from: £27.28 |
 | Gerald of Wales: A Voice of the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett
Buy used from: £20.38 Biographical study of the quixotic author of the Desciption of Wales, and the themes of his work.
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| The Welsh Law of Women
Buy used from: £90.00 Practically the only work avaliable on medieval Welsh women, focusing on their position in native law.
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 | Edward I (Yale English Monarchs Series) by M Prestwich
Buy new: £14.38 / Used from: £9.35 The conqueror of Gwynedd.
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 | The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by none
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 One of the few surviving works of medieval Welsh literature.
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