Dr Jonathan Wooding BA, PhD

Contact Details

School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
Tel: 01570 424 883 (4883)
E-mail: j.wooding@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Reader in Church History

Role in the University

Reader in Church History

Background

BA, PhD

Member of

  • Fellow of Society of Antiquaries
  • Fellow of Royal Historical Society
  • Fellow Higher Education Academy

Academic Interests

  • Religion and theology in the Celtic World
  • Monasticism (all periods and faiths) and ‘secular monasticism’
  • Church Archaeology and Faith Heritage
  • Religious Voyage Narratives

Publications

Books, Journals, Papers, etc.

Selected Recent Publications

  • (with N. Yates), Pocket Guide to Welsh Churches and Chapels (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011)
  • (with A. Grimley), Living the Hours (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2010)
  • (ed.), Solitaries, Pastors and 20,000 Saints: Studies in the Religious History of Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli) (Trivium: Lampeter, 2010)
  • (ed.), Adomnán of Iona: Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010)
  • ‘St Ninian: Archaeology and the dossier of a Saint’s Cult’, in J. Murray (ed.), St Ninian and the Earliest Christianity in Scotland, BAR British Series 483 (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2009), 9–18
  • (With Karen Jankulak) ‘Wales and England 800–1200’, in Helen Fulton (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Arthurian Literature (London: Blackwell, 2009), 3–83.
  • ‘The Medieval and Early Modern Cult of St Brendan’, in S. Boardman et al. (eds), Saints’ Cults in Celtic Britain and Ireland (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2009), 180–204
  • ‘Saint and Beast in Nauigatio S. Brendani abbatis’, in G. Buron, H. Bihan and B. Merdrignac (eds), A travers les îles celtiques – Mélanges à la mémoire de Gwenael Le Duc, Britannica Monastica 12 (2008), 287-96

Additional Information

Conferences, Current Research, External, Projects etc.

Books writing

  • Early Christianity in the Celtic World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012/13)
  • Saints and the Sea in the Celtic Lands (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012

New Series

  • ‘New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology’, University of Wales Press 

Books Editing

  • (with J. Wyn Evans), “The Condition of Menevia”- Architecture and Antiquities of St Davids in the 150 years since Jones and Freeman (Logaston Press)