Fiona Edmonds visited the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, in order to deliver a seminar about the project. The seminar began with a discussion of the key concepts underpinning the project and a summary of the work conducted to date. Fiona then gave a more detailed exposition of her thoughts about contact between Britain and Brittany during the Viking Age. She highlighted the political reorientations of the period, including new connections with England. Nevertheless, she argued for the persistence of the concept of the pan-Brittonic world ‘o Vynaw hyt Lydaw’ during this complex period.
Month: March 2017
Talk at Winstanley College, 8th December 2016
Fiona Edmonds delivered a talk about the project to sixth-formers studying History at Winstanley College near Wigan. The project touches on some of the themes that the students cover in the Angevin component of their A-level. The talk provoked some interesting questions about Geoffrey II, duke of Brittany, and about the circulation of Arthurian material between Brittany and Britain.