IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 1127: Literacy, Law, and Learning in Wales during Times of 'Crisis'

Sponsor:	Mortimer History Society
Organiser:	Amy Reynolds, School of History & Archaeology, Bangor University
Moderator/Chair:	Jennifer Bell, School of History, Law & Social Sciences, Bangor University
Paper 1127-a	Medieval Identity Crisis: Welsh Land Inheritance Laws Following the Edwardian Conquest (Language: English) Leah Hennick, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Celtic, Law and Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1127-b	A Crisis of Faith or Bitter Slander: Gerald of Wales' De Principis Instuctione (Language: English) Emily Abercrombie, Department of History, University of Liverpool Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) and Religious Life
Abstract	The aim of this session is to explore changes in medieval Welsh law, literacy, and learning in response to conflict and change. Paper 1 will discuss the continuation and change in Welsh inheritance law following the Edwardian Conquest in the late thirteenth-century, as an example of continuation of Welsh culture in the face of political change. Paper 2 will explore the later writings of Gerald of Wales and discuss how his text 'De Principis Instuctione' was a response to Gerald's attempts to further his ecclesiastical career.