Early Medieval Wales – a matter of identity

How did people in early medieval Wales live? And how did their lives change between the departure of the Romans in the early fifth century AD and the coming of the Normans to Wales over 600 years later? In this 10-Minute Talk, Nancy Edwards considers some remarkable archaeological monuments, highlighting what these reveal about aspects of identity during this period.

Speaker: Professor Nancy Edwards FBA, Professor of Medieval Archaeology, Bangor University

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Image: The Pillar of Eliseg. Courtesy of Nancy Edwards.

[mid-walesparky]

So glad you saved this for later viewing as I had hoped to listen in live, but an unexpected event precluded it. Very interesting; thank you.

[clivehughes]

How far would you subscribe to the importance of ancestry for the Welsh, displayed not only in monumental terms but the extensive genealogies (eg. P.C.Bartrum's lists for the period prior to c1000AD.
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[aejones]

Many thanks for the information abt yr upcoming book & the other sources.One of the other comments has touched on the welsh fascination for genealogy. My grandmother kept a notebook setting out our relationship to Owain Glyndwr & the Black Prince - a little later than your period of course.

[bdp]

Very interesting, my roots go back to Odo De Barry and to Princess Nest