Gwenffrewi Morgan

Gwen’s PhD project focuses on how the pasts of landscapes and environments in ‘Western Britain’ (the lands South – West of the Clyde) were conceptualised in the Central Middle Ages. She draws her sources from the diverse and broad corpus of ‘Historiography’ writings about the past: Histories, Chronicles, Hagiographies and analyses how the authors of these texts thought about the environment in the pasts that they wrote about. Additionally, using a variety of methods, Gwen is hoping to consider how these depictions of the past from the long-twelfth-century matched or didn’t actual  (both in the authors present and past) conditions so far as they can be reconstructed from other sources. Using historiography to access environmental thought is a novel approach, that will reveal a richly entangled high medieval historical culture in its natural context.

 

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