Medieval History
Our assumptions about the celebration of Christmas are shattered when we turn back the clock to medieval Wales, argues Dr Madeleine Gray, reader in history at the University of Wales, Newport
You would expect a traditional medieval Welsh Christmas to be all about Jesus? birth. Whatever our feelings about religion, we do think we have a picture of the first Christmas ? the stable, the baby in the manger, the shepherds coming down from the cold hills. But strangely enough, there were very few pictures of this scene in medieval Wales.
Click here to read this article from the Western Mail
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Harpswell, Lincolnshire 5, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.My apologies for the hiatus in posting since before Christmas. My wife and my father have both been ill and have spent time in hospital over Christmas and consequently I have been unable to...
Medieval History
More religion and less sentiment at Christmas in medieval Wales
Our assumptions about the celebration of Christmas are shattered when we turn back the clock to medieval Wales, argues Dr Madeleine Gray, reader in history at the University of Wales, Newport
You would expect a traditional medieval Welsh Christmas to be all about Jesus? birth. Whatever our feelings about religion, we do think we have a picture of the first Christmas ? the stable, the baby in the manger, the shepherds coming down from the cold hills. But strangely enough, there were very few pictures of this scene in medieval Wales.
Click here to read this article from the Western Mail
- Lost Roman Port Found In Wales
The remains of a 2000-year-old Roman port have been discovered in south Wales by archaeologists from Cardiff University. Uncovered outside the Roman fortress in Caerleon by a team of staff and students from the School of History, Archaeology and...
- New Book Examines The Influence Of Medieval Welsh On Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote: ?I love Wales?and especially the Welsh language?. Now, a Cardiff University academic has explored Wales? influence on Tolkien in the first book-length study of his debts to Welsh language and literature. Tolkien and Wales: Language,...
- Website Launched On Medieval Monasteries In Wales
A new website was launched last month by the University of Wales Lampeter with information about medieval monasteries and nunneries founded in Wales between the coming of the Normans and the Dissolution of 1530s. The Monastic Wales website is a work...
- Barley Hall In York Will Be Having A Medieval Christmas
Musical minstrels, candlelit tours, traditional festive décor and a glass of mulled wine ? York?s Barley Hall has it all this Christmas. York?s restored Barley Hall town house ? parts of which date back to 1360 - is inviting visitors to experience a...
- Brief Hiatus
Harpswell, Lincolnshire 5, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.My apologies for the hiatus in posting since before Christmas. My wife and my father have both been ill and have spent time in hospital over Christmas and consequently I have been unable to...