Medieval History
- Laws Of Hywel Dda Manuscript To Be Sold At Auction
A 14th century manuscript containing the Laws of Hywel Dda is set to go up for auction next month, and is expected to sell for between £500,000-700,000. Sotheby?s London will offer the medieval Welsh manuscript as part of its sale of Western Manuscripts...
- 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,...
- The Face Of Owain Glynd?r Revealed
Researchers in Wales have digitally reconstructed the face of Owain Glynd?r, the Welsh ruler who waged a revolt against English rule in the fifteenth-century. First revealed on the Welsh TV documentary The Face of Glynd?r, it depicts a powerful-looking...
- Latinities In England , 894-1135latinities In England , 894-1135 Jan 22
Latinities in England , 894-1135 a workshop in two parts Friday, January 22 ***** Morning Session (11 a.m.?12:30 p.m.) Asser and Æthelweard Afternoon Session (2 p.m.?3:30 p.m.) Goscelin and William of Malmesbury ***** New York University 13-19 University...
- Early Medieval Metalwork From Wales
Brigham Young University offers hundreds of varied language courses that are difficult to find even at the largest universities - including Welsh language courses, taught by the venerable Tom Taylor. As a hopeless lover of all things British, medieval,...
Medieval History
The Subversive Power of St. David's: Gerald of Wales and the Dominion of Canterbury
The Subversive Power of St. David's: Gerald of Wales and the Dominion of Canterbury
The twelfth century writer Gerald of Wales was product of unique hybridity in terms of not only sociopolitical culture, but also ecclesiastical spaces. Gerald often walked a line between the colonizer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the colonized, the Welsh Church. The ways in which he navigated his career between the two emphasize not only Gerald's goals of an independent Welsh Church and a bishopric at St. David's, but also the ways in which Gerald orientalized himself. Through a postcolonial reading of Gerald's Irish and Welsh texts, this study will examine the ways in which his travels led Gerald to characterize the Irish and Welsh native peoples and their religions in the folklore he collected in order to identify his ultimately futile argument for an independent Welsh church. This study will additionally reveal how Gerald inadvertently further identified himself as Welsh in the eyes of his Anglo-Norman readers.
- Laws Of Hywel Dda Manuscript To Be Sold At Auction
A 14th century manuscript containing the Laws of Hywel Dda is set to go up for auction next month, and is expected to sell for between £500,000-700,000. Sotheby?s London will offer the medieval Welsh manuscript as part of its sale of Western Manuscripts...
- 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,...
- The Face Of Owain Glynd?r Revealed
Researchers in Wales have digitally reconstructed the face of Owain Glynd?r, the Welsh ruler who waged a revolt against English rule in the fifteenth-century. First revealed on the Welsh TV documentary The Face of Glynd?r, it depicts a powerful-looking...
- Latinities In England , 894-1135latinities In England , 894-1135 Jan 22
Latinities in England , 894-1135 a workshop in two parts Friday, January 22 ***** Morning Session (11 a.m.?12:30 p.m.) Asser and Æthelweard Afternoon Session (2 p.m.?3:30 p.m.) Goscelin and William of Malmesbury ***** New York University 13-19 University...
- Early Medieval Metalwork From Wales
Brigham Young University offers hundreds of varied language courses that are difficult to find even at the largest universities - including Welsh language courses, taught by the venerable Tom Taylor. As a hopeless lover of all things British, medieval,...