Scholarly edition of 1 medieval Welsh text, presented on the Seintiau website, part of the AHRC funded ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ project which has created editions and translations of medieval Welsh-language texts about saints. The edition of the Welsh Life of St Martin of Tours includes analysis and discussion of the Welsh text in relation to its Latin exemplar and an introduction to the saint’s cult both internationally and in Wales, with further, detailed analysis of St Martin’s cult in Wales being presented in the accompanying journal publication
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 26-JD1
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Journal, live URL and archived URL in PDF
- Brief description of type
- Online scholarly edition of Life of Martin with accompanying journal article
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month
- October
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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https://www.welshsaints.ac.uk/edition/texts/prose/BMartin/edited-text.eng.html
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The creation of the new edition, involving transcription from manuscript sources, establishing the best reading, translation, and the writing of accompanying textual and explanatory notes, allowed the late-medieval Welsh Life of St Martin to be analysed in detail in relation to its (Late Roman) Latin source. The introduction discusses the cult of St Martin in its original (Gaulish/French) and wider context, addressing the question of how well known St Martin was in Wales, and how he was perceived. A second research question, tying in with the wider field of translation studies, is how the translator, Siôn Trefor, adapted his source material for his contemporary audience. Both research questions are central to the project’s aim of analysing the development of saints’ cults through time and their contribution to evolving Welsh traditions and culture. The first of these research questions is addressed in more detail in the journal article, which analyses the wider literary evidence concerning St Martin’s cult in Wales and further demonstrate that St Martin was known from early times in Wales and by the high Middle Ages at least was regarded as a powerful intercessor. The article also demonstrates that several different aspects of Martin’s character were known in the Welsh literary tradition, and that in parts of north-east Wales he was regarded as essentially a local saint rather than a French or international one.
Dissemination:
Online edition of Life of Martin. Live website published at: https://www.welshsaints.ac.uk/theedition/
Archived website (record of version for REF census period) archived on 24/12/20 at: https://conifer.rhizome.org/RIES_MattBriggs/uoa26/20201224102852/https://www.welshsaints.ac.uk/edition/texts/prose/BMartin/edited-text.eng.html
Journal Publication:
Agweddau ar Gwlt Martin o Tours mewn Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg hyd c.1525’, Llên Cymru, 40 (2017), 3-39. DOI 10.16922/lc.40.2.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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