University of Wales

The Pinnacle of the Medieval Welsh Bardic Tradition? The Poetry of Guto'r Glyn.

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

From the fifteenth century to the present day, Guto'r Glyn (c.1435/c.1493) has been acknowledged as the greatest exponent of the Welsh praise-poetry tradition, a cultural succession which stretches back to the sixth century. We aim to reconstruct, as far as is possible, the original text of the poems of Guto'r Glyn based on the manuscripts now available: 6,500 lines of verse, in c.160 poems, preserved in c.2300 manuscript copies.

Academic field

History

Monastic Wales

Posted by Martin Crampin on February 25, 2015

In an attempt to identify more firmly Wales's place on the monastic map of Europe, this new large-scale project seeks to establish a comprehensive monastic history of medieval Wales, the findings of which will be made available to scholars and students, as well as the wider public, both electronically and in print. This will include monasteries and houses of Canons which were active in Wales for some or all of the period from the late eleventh century until the Suppression of the religious houses in the sixteenth century.

Academic field

Archaeology, History, Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies