SARA ELIN ROBERTS is a historian specialising in the law, literature and culture of Wales and the March from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. She has been working on medieval Welsh lawbooks for more than two decades.

Cleanly written and outfitted with a useful glossary and thorough bibliography, The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales must now be seen as the new entry point for the study of medieval Welsh law. In her acknowledgments, Roberts declares that "[t]his book has been a long time in the making" (213). It has been worth waiting for.

• IllustrationsAbbreviationsLaw Manuscripts and SiglaPrefacePART I: READING THE LAW, SHAPING THE LAW1.Introduction: Medieval Welsh Law and the Lawtexts2.'A Rather Laborious and Harassing Occupation': Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales and the Historiography of the Welsh Laws3.'Rei a dyweit': Lawyers and the Law in Medieval WalesAppendix - 'Rei a dyweit'PART II: A NEW APPROACH TO CYFRAITH HYWEL4.'All Additional and Later Matter': The 'Anomalous Laws' and the Lawtexts5.'Achwannec kyureith dylyedus y chynnal': the Blegywryd Redaction6.'O gyureith Hywel Da, a'e arueroed, a'e gynneuodeu': The Development of the Redaction Manuscripts 7.'Much matter not elsewhere to be found': The Non-Redaction LawbooksConclusionAcknowledgementsGlossaryBibliographyIndexIndex of Manuscripts

SARA ELIN ROBERTS is a historian specialising in the law, literature and culture of Wales and the March from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. She has been working on medieval Welsh lawbooks for more than two decades.

Cleanly written and outfitted with a useful glossary and thorough bibliography, The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales must now be seen as the new entry point for the study of medieval Welsh law. In her acknowledgments, Roberts declares that "[t]his book has been a long time in the making" (213). It has been worth waiting for.

• IllustrationsAbbreviationsLaw Manuscripts and SiglaPrefacePART I: READING THE LAW, SHAPING THE LAW1.Introduction: Medieval Welsh Law and the Lawtexts2.'A Rather Laborious and Harassing Occupation': Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales and the Historiography of the Welsh Laws3.'Rei a dyweit': Lawyers and the Law in Medieval WalesAppendix - 'Rei a dyweit'PART II: A NEW APPROACH TO CYFRAITH HYWEL4.'All Additional and Later Matter': The 'Anomalous Laws' and the Lawtexts5.'Achwannec kyureith dylyedus y chynnal': the Blegywryd Redaction6.'O gyureith Hywel Da, a'e arueroed, a'e gynneuodeu': The Development of the Redaction Manuscripts 7.'Much matter not elsewhere to be found': The Non-Redaction LawbooksConclusionAcknowledgementsGlossaryBibliographyIndexIndex of Manuscripts