Celtic Research Circle cordially invites everyone to Dr Bryn Jones’ lecture titled “Wales and the Papacy before the Edwardian conquest.” which will take place on Wednesday 26 March at 11:30 in room 213, Collegium Heliodori.
Abstract:
This paper attempts to give an overview of the relationship between the Papacy and the Welsh polities and the Welsh Church prior to the Edwardian Conquest of Wales. Consideration is given to the work of Gerald of Wales, documents originating in the papal bureaucracy, Welsh chronicles, law codes, poetry, saints’ lives, charters and other administrative documents. The relationship changed overtime, and seems likely to have been far more important to the Welsh polities and Church than to the Papacy itself.