Dr Ben Guy
Junior Research Fellow
Departmental and College Responsibilities
Email: bdg25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Ben Guy has been a Junior Research Fellow in Robinson College since October 2017. He obtained his PhD, entitled 'Medieval Welsh Genealogy: Texts, Contexts and Transmission', in the Department of ASNC in 2016. In 2017, he worked as a Research Associate for the AHRC-funded project 'Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae: The Latin Lives of the Welsh Saints', based jointly in the Department of ASNC and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth.
Dr Guy teaches for the following papers.
In the Department of ASNC:
- Part I paper 1: England before the Norman Conquest.
- 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.
- Part II paper 3: Sea Kings and the Celtic-Speaking World, c. 1040–1164.
- Part II paper 7: Advanced medieval Welsh language and literature.
In the Faculty of History:
- Part I paper 2: British political history, 380–1100.
- Part I paper 3: British political history, 1050–1509.
- Part I paper 7: British economic and social history, 380–1100.
Academic Interests
Medieval genealogy; medieval chronicles; hagiography; Welsh manuscripts; medieval history of the Celtic-speaking peoples; cross-cultural interaction; medieval Welsh literature; the Anglo-Welsh border
Selected Publications
‘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 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.
