Past and present members of the project team were busy presenting papers at several international conferences this summer. The project organised three full sessions at Leeds International Medieval Congress on 1 July 2019, amounting to nine papers in all, by past and present members of the project team: I: Welsh Saints in Wales Barry James…
The project arranged an afternoon of talks in the Chapter House at Gloucester Cathedral on 3 November 2018. The importance of Gloucester as the focus of the collection of traditions relating to saints in Wales has long been recognised, and the inclusion of the Lives of Cadog, Gwynllyw, Padarn and others in the Cotton Vespasian…
At the colloquium on 20 October 2018 Martin Crampin will give a paper on ‘The Imaging of Saints in Medieval Wales’, and Ann Parry Owen will deliver a Keynote Lecture on ‘Cain awen gan awel bylgaint – Canu Beirdd y Tywysogion i Gadfan, Tysilio a Dewi’ (Fine poetic inspiration brought by the dawn breeze: the Poets of…
The project team enjoyed an opportunity to visit St Asaph Cathedral on 4 September 2018 to share the work of the project and present current scholarship on St Asaph and St Kentigern. David Callendar’s recent work on the Life of St Asaph from the lost Red Book of St Asaph, which is transcribed in an…
After a short break, during which our planned event in March in Lincoln was cancelled due to snow, the ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ exhibition is on display once again at St Asaph Cathedral. The exhibition is on display from 30 July until 4 September, when members of the team will be visiting the cathedral…
The project team visited Llandaff Cathedral on 11 November 2017, resuming our visits to places around Wales to share new research underway on the project. The speakers were David Parsons, Ben Guy, Paul Russell and Martin Crampin. The talks ranged across church dedications to Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy (the three Welsh saints associated with the…
Past and present members of the ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ and ‘Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae’ project and advisory panels met in Aberystwyth for the ‘Stories of the Saints’ conference at the National Library of Wales on 3 June 2017. Speakers addressed the Latin and Welsh Lives of David; the Welsh Lives of Martin and Collen;…
Over the course of the initial four-year ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ project (2013–17) we held a series of afternoon events at locations around Wales at Bangor, St Davids, Llantwit Major and Holywell. This spring we are back by popular demand! The project was approached to collaborate on a similar event at Llanbadarn Fawr, as…
‘The Cult of Saints in Wales’ research project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, has been engaged in the editing and translating of medieval Welsh saints’ Lives, poetry addressed to the saints, and saintly genealogies. As this project draws to a close, an exhibition of medieval and early…
Our next project event will be held this Saturday at Holywell in Flintshire. However, this is just one of the events in the town this week, and a group of walkers set off from Shrewsbury Abbey on 18 June retracing the route that Henry V is thought to have travelled in 1416 after the Battle…
