Dr Jonathan Wooding BA, PhD
Contact Details
School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic StudiesTel: 01570 424 883 (4883)
E-mail: j.wooding@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
Campus
Lampeter CampusJob Title
Reader in Church HistoryRole in the University
Reader in Church HistoryBackground
BA, PhDMember 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)


