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 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;…
The funding for the current ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ project will come to an end in March 2017, and we are currently completing work on the online editions and exhibition at the National Library of Wales. However, we are delighted to report that new work on saints lives in Wales will continue as the…
The relics of Winifrede, or Gwenfrewy, were brought from Gwytheryn to Shrewsbury Abbey in 1138. The saint was chosen as the joint patron of Roman Catholic diocese of Shrewsbury, which was created in 1851 and originally extended from the West Midlands across north Wales to Anglesey, before the creation of the Diocese of Menevia in…
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…
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…
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,…
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’…
