IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 712: Networks and Entanglements in Medieval Wales, III: The Spread of Saints' Cults and Other Legends
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Bangor University |
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| Organiser: | Amy Reynolds, School of History & Archaeology, University of Bangor |
| Moderator/Chair: | Adam Chapman, Department of History, University of Southampton / Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Paper 712-a | Poets, Patrons, and the Cults of Local Saints in Late Medieval Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Celtic |
| Paper 712-b | The Topographical Networks for the Saints' Cults of South Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Hagiography |
| Paper 712-c | Trioedd Ynys Prydein: Theme, History, and Performance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | Session three will look at the spread of hagiography and other Welsh cultural and religious traditions and the networks that developed to facilitate the promotion of medieval Welsh traditions. Paper -a will explore the relationship between patrons, poets, and the promotion of local saints' cults in late medieval Wales, by analysing examples of hagiographical poetry and putting them into a wider context. Paper -b will discuss the topographical networks of Welsh saints' cults, drawing on sources that discuss toponymics and the wider historic landscape of south Wales to demonstrate the geographical networks of saints' cults. Paper -c will examine the use of networks in the collection of Welsh texts known as the Triads of the Island of Britain, Y Trioedd Ynys Prydein. |