Dr Ben Guy
Teaching Associate, Anglo-Saxon History
Junior Research Fellow
Departmental and College Responsibilities
Email: bdg25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Ben Guy is presently a Teaching Associate in the History of England before the Norman Conquest, covering teaching for Dr Naismith while he is on research leave. For 2020/1, he is the course coorindator for the following papers:
- Part I paper 1: England before the Norman Conquest.
- Part II paper 1: The Anglo-Saxon Chancery.
Dr Guy also offers supervision for the following papers.
In the Department of ASNC:
- Part I paper 3: The Brittonic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth.
- Part I paper 4: The Gaelic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth.
- Part I paper 7: Medieval Welsh language and literature.
- Part I paper 10: Palaeography and codicology.
In the Faculty of History:
- Part I paper 2: British political history, 380–1100.
- Part I paper 7: British economic and social history, 380–1100.
Academic Interests
Early Insular history; historical writing (especially genealogies and chronicles); medieval Welsh language and literature; manuscript studies.
Selected Publications
'Rheinwg: The Lost Kingdom of South Wales', Peritia 30 (2019), 97–121.
‘The Life of St Dyfrig and the Lost Charters of Moccas (Mochros), Herefordshire’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 75 (2018), 1–37.
‘Gerald and Welsh Genealogical Learning’, in Gerald of Wales: New Perspectives on a Medieval Writer and Critic, ed. G. Henley and A. J. McMullen (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018), pp. 47–61.
‘The Textual History of the Harleian Genealogies’, Welsh History Review 28 (2016), 1–25.
‘Egerton Phillimore (1856–1937) and the Study of Welsh Historical Texts’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, new series, 21 (2015), 36–50.
‘The Origins of the Compilation of Welsh Historical Texts in Harley 3859’, Studia Celtica 49 (2015), 21–56.
‘A Second Witness to the Welsh Material in Harley 3859’, Quaestio Insularis: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 15 (2014), 72–91.
‘The Breton Migration: A New Synthesis’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 61 (2014), 101–56.
Reviews
Review of P. Sims-Williams, The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source (2019), in Morgannwg (2020), 225–9.
Review of Lindy Brady, Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (2017), English Historical Review 134 (2019), 947–9.
Review of Lynette Olson, ed., St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales (2017), English Historical Review 134 (2019), 176–7.