Events

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…

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’…

Our afternoon of talks at Llantwit Major attracted a large audience and we were very grateful to our hosts at the church, thought to be that founded by St Illtud. Karen Jankulak reminded us that because of the unique connection of Illtud and his early monastery with the Life of Samson, which was perhaps written…

As part of a day-conference on Medieval Breconshire and the Welsh Poets, Eurig Salisbury will be asking ‘Sut i gael 42 o seintiau mewn un gerdd? Moliant Huw Cae Llwyd i seintiau Brycheiniog’ (How do you get 42 saints into one poem? Huw Cae Llwyd’s praise for the saints of Brycheiniog).