English-language posts
Members of the project team shared recent work arising from the project during the summer. Jane Cartwright organised a session on saints in Wales for the International Conference of Medieval Studies in Leeds, and gave a paper along with colleagues Martin Crampin and Jenny Day. Jane was also invited to the University of Marburg in…
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…
The talks given at the project event in St Davids are now available online using the following links. Our thanks to Jane Cartwright and colleagues at the University of Wales Trinity St David for their help with making these presentations available. Jenny Day ‘The Lives of St David’ (with an introduction by Dafydd Johnston)Ann Parry…
Jenny Day has been editing Buchedd Marthin, a Welsh translation of Sulpicius Severus’s Vita Sancti Martini (one of the earliest and most influential saints’ Lives) and of passages from other works by Sulpicius (c.360–?c.430) and by Gregory of Tours (c.538/9–94). She will be discussing how these Latin texts were translated into Welsh and adapted for…
In February, Ann Parry Owen and Alaw Mai Edwards spoke on Rhaglen Dei Tomos (Radio Cymru) about the project in general and the importance of the saints in medieval times. They also discussed the open days arranged by the project and especially the upcoming open day that was held at St Davids on 29 February….
Just back from giving a paper on ‘Mapping the Cult of Saints in Wales’ to the 38th Annual Celtic Conference of the University of California, held at UCLA, March 10-12. I set out my favourite example of St Cynog of Brycheiniog – in extended form and for the last time! – discussing the different elements that make up the…
The most recent showing of our travelling exhibition came to an end on Saturday 12 March. Before packing away the displays I was asked to give a talk to year nine students from Llandovery College, who were visiting St Davids over the weekend. As well as using the exhibition as a visual aid to the…
All of the project team were present at the most recent of our series of project events in St Davids on 29 February. Four talks in the afternoon at the cathedral’s education centre, Tŷ Pererin, addressed medieval literature relevant to St David, place-names in Pembrokeshire and representations of David in modern stained glass. Jenny Day,…
The ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ exhibition is now on display at St Davids Cathedral in advance of our afternoon of talks on St David and saints in Wales at Tŷ’r Pererin, near the cathedral on Quickwell Hill, on 29 February. The exhibition is situated in the north choir aisle. It will remain on display…
Missed our recent events? Talks given at Bangor and Llantwit Major were recorded and are now available to view using the following links: Bangor David Parsons ‘Introduction to the Saints in Wales Project’Alaw Mai Edwards ‘Seintiau Gwynedd yn Llenyddiaeth yr Oesoedd Canol’Barry Lewis ‘Bonedd y Saint’ Llantwit Major Jane Cartwright ‘Mair Fadlen a’r Bucheddau Cymraeg’…
