Current Research Projects
Imaging the Bible in Wales
Welsh life and culture has been inextricably bound to the Bible, evident in the vast array of visual expressions of biblical themes found throughout the principality. However, such visual expressions are fast disappearing as churches, chapels and synagogues, often their original and only location, fall into disuse.
This project (focussed on 1825–1975), analyses the social, political and theological questions raised by Welsh biblical visual culture so that its contribution to the intellectual, artistic and cultural heritage of Wales can be recognized and preserved.
Imaging the Bible in Wales website
The Monastic Wales Project
In an attempt to identify more firmly Wales's place on the monastic map of Europe, this new large-scale project seeks to establish a comprehensive monastic history of medieval Wales.
The Project seeks also to encourage new research into aspects of Welsh monastic history and to provide a platform for unpublished material and new work. Essays and articles will be available to users on the website. A comprehensive history of monastic Wales, with contributions from leading scholars in the field, will be published in book form.
The Monastic Wales Project website
Strata Florida Project
The Strata Florida Project is major research programme setting Strata Florida in its social, political and landscape contexts, to include not just the period of the Abbey’s existence, but also its antecedents from the later Iron Age onwards and its successors up to the present day.
