Dr. Karen Jankulak BA, MA PhD (Toronto)

Dr Karen Jankulak

Contact Details

Tel: 01570 424957 (4957)

Location

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Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Part-time Senior Lecturer

Role in the University

  • Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching
  • Director, MA in Arthurian Studies

Member of

  • 2006- Fellow, Royal Historical Society,
  • Member, Comité d’Animation Scientifique, Centre International de Recherche et de Documentation sur le Monachisme Celtique, Landévennec, Brittany, 2004- (LINK http://cirdomoc.free.fr/Cirdomoc.htm)
  • member, editorial board, Welsh History Review/ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru
  • reviews editor, Welsh History Review/ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru

Member :

  • Cornwall Archaeological Association
  • Haskins Society
  • Celtic Studies Association of North America
  • Hagiography Society
  • Centre for the Study of Religions in Celtic Societies
  • International Arthurian Society

Academic Interests

  • the cults of saints and ecclesiastical organisation within a context of early and central medieval insular and continental (mainly Celtic) history
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth, pseudo-historical texts, and origin legends
  • medieval lists of ‘resting-places of saints’ and other significant fourteenth-century collections of vitae, particularly that found in Gotha, Forschungsbibl. Mm.I.81
  • currently preparing an edition of Catalogus sanctorum pausantium in Anglie in the Waltham Abbey Miscellany (BL Harley MS 3776)
  • Domesday, the Norman Conquest, and Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman political and settlement history
  • seventeenth-century antiquarians from Britain, Ireland, and the Continent.

Areas of postgraduate supervision

  • Ecclesiastical history in medieval Celtic world;
  • cults of saints;
  • Arthurian Studies;
  • medieval Cornwall and Brittany

Research Subject Areas

  • Medieval Studies
  • Arthurian Studies
  • Church History
  • Religious History

Publications

  • (with Jonathan Wooding), ‘The British Cult of St Gildas’ in Bernard Merdrignac, Georges Provost (eds), Colloque Saint Gildas. Saint-Gildas de Saint-Gildas de Rhuys 30-31 janvier 2009 (Société Polymathique du Morbihan, Éditions des Montagnes Noires, 2011), pp. 25-42.

  • Geoffrey of Monmouth. Writers of Wales Series (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2010).

  • (with Jonathan Wooding) ‘The Life of St Elgar of Ynys Enlli’ in Jonathan Wooding (ed.), Solitaries, Pastors and 20,000 Saints: Studies in the Religious History of Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli) , Trivium vol. 39 (Lampeter, Trivium Publications, 2010), pp. 15-47.
  • ‘La matière de Bretagne que Geoffroy de Monmouth n’a pas utilisée: les mythes d’origine des royaumes gallois médiévaux’ in Magali Coumert and Hélène Tétrel (eds), Histoires des Bretagnes. 1 Les mythes fondateurs (Brest, Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, 2010), pp. 59-81.
  • (with Jonathan M. Wooding), ‘The Historical Context: Wales and England 800-1200’ in Helen Fulton (ed.), A Companion to Arthurian Literature (Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 73-83.  
  • ‘Adjacent Saints’ Dedications and Early Celtic History’, in Steve Boardman and J.R. Davies,  (eds), Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World (Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2008), pp. 91-118.
  • in Christopher Snyder (ed.), The Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2008, 2 vols), entries on Alain III, count of Richmond (d. 1146), pp. 17-18; Brutus, p. 96; Carausius, pp. 111-112; Cornovii, pp. 160-61; Dumnonia, pp. 196-7; Dumnonii, pp. 197-8; Geoffrey of Monmouth, pp. 241-3; Geraint, king of Dumnonia, pp. 243-4; Samson, saint, pp. 470-1.
  • ‘The Many-Layered Cult of St Caron of Tregaron’, Studia Celtica 41 (2007),  pp.103-16.       
  • ‘Spondet devotion quod negat scientia? The Cult of St Caron of Tregaron’ in Gildas Buron, Hervé Bihan and Bernard Merdrignac (eds), À travers les îles celtiques. Mélanges à la mémoire de Gwénaël Le Duc (Rennes, Cirdomoc and Klask, 2008), pp. 271-86.  
  • ‘Carantoc alias Cairnech?:British saints, Irish saints, and the Irish in Wales’ in Karen Jankulak and Jonathan M. Wooding (eds),  Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 116-48.
  • (with Jonathan Wooding) ‘Introduction’, in Karen Jankulak and Jonathan M. Wooding (eds), Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 11-15.
  •   ‘Dinham, family of, c. 1250-1457/8’, New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2005), vol. 16, pp. 245-7.   
  • ‘Alba Longa in the Celtic Regions? Swine, saints and Celtic hagiography’, in J. Cartwright (ed.), Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults (Cardiff, 2003), pp. 271-84.
  • ‘Saint Pérec en Haute et en Basse Bretagne: l’introduction et la diffusion de son culte’, Britannia Monastica no. 6, Centre International de Recherche et de Documentation sur le Monachisme Celtique (Rennes, 2002), pp. 93-109.
  • in John Koch (ed.), Encyclopedia of Celtic Culture and History (Oxford and Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002), entries on ‘Cornish Hagiography’, vol. 3, pp. 881-3 and ‘Christianity in Brittany’, vol. 2, pp. 424-7.
  • ‘Fingar/Gwinear/Guigner: an “Irish” Saint in Medieval Cornwall and Brittany’, in John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Padraig Ó Riain (eds), Studies in Irish Hagiography (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 120-39.
  • The Medieval Cult of St Petroc (Studies in Celtic History XIX), (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000), 263 + xi pp.
  • ‘Breton Vitae and Political Need in the Cartulary of Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé’, Literature and Politics in the Celtic World. Papers from the Third Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, July 1998 (Sydney: University of Sydney, 2000), pp. 218-47.
  • ‘Some Sources of Nicholas Roscarrock’s Account of the Life of St Petroc’, Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 37 (1994), pp. 185-9.
  • BOOKS REVIEWED
  • Joseph-Claude Poulin, L’hagiographie bretonne du haut moyen âge: répertoire raisonné in Peritia 21 (2010), pp. 322-3.
  • Seán Ó Duinn, The Rites of Brigid. Goddess and Saint in Irish Theological Quarterly 72 (2007), p. 313.
  • Nathalie Stalmans, Saints d’Irlande. Analyse critique des sources hagiographiques (Viie-Ixe siècles) in Irish Historical Studies 34 (2004), 233-5.
  • Nicholas Orme, English Church Dedications in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 49 (1998), pp. 531-2.

Additional Information

Invited Lectures

  • ‘How Irish was medieval Ceredigion? Pseudo-history, history, and historiography’, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation, University College Dublin, 27 February 2009.
  • La matière de Bretagne que Geoffroi de Monmouth n’a pas utilisée: les mythes d’origine des royaumes gallois médiévaux’, Histoires des Bretagnes: les mythes de foundation. 3e journée d’étude, Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique et Maison des Sciences de l’Homme en Bretagne, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, 23 January 2009.
  • ‘Saints and Swine: St Cadog and his Boar from Lifris to Caradog’, Stichting A.G. van Hamel, University of Utrecht, 20 April 2006.

PAPERS GIVEN        

  • ‘Adjacent Saints’ Dedications between Cornwall and Brittany’, Annual Tionól, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, 17-18 November 2006.
  •  ‘Caradog of Llancarfan’s Vita Cadoci (Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Mm I.81)’, Milestones Conference, Aberystwyth, 28 June-2 July 2005.
  •  ‘The South-Western Saints’ Lives in the Hagiographical Manuscript, Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Mm I.81’, Testing the Pen: Medieval Celtic Manuscripts, Aberdeen, 16-17 August, 2004.
  •  ‘St Carantoc and the Irish in Ceredigion’, Annual Conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, Toronto, Canada, 15-18 April 2004.
  •  ‘S. Cadog et les porcs’, Colloque du Centre International de Recherche   et de Documentation sur le Monachisme Celtique, Landévennec, Brittany, 7 July, 2001.
  •  ‘Vita Gurthierni and the Cartulary of Saint-Croix de Quimperlé’, Annual Tionól, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, 19-20 November, 1999.
  •  ‘Ubi illuc invenies gregem aprorum, ibi mane: Swine as portents of ecclesiastical foundation’, Eleventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, University College Cork, Ireland, 23-31 July 1999.
  • ‘Adjacent Saints’ Dedications between Cornwall and Brittany’,International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 12-15 July 1999.
  •  ‘Celtic England: Cornwall’ in session ‘The Territorial Framework of English Medieval Settlement: a Comparative Approach’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 13-16 July, 1998.
  •  ‘Breton Vitae and Political Need in the Cartulary of Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé’, Third Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, July 1998.
  •  ‘Saint Pérec en Haute et en Basse Bretagne: l’introduction et la diffusion de son culte’, Colloque du Centre International de Recherche   et de Documentation sur le Monachisme Celtique, Landévennec, Brittany, July 1998.
  •  ‘The Medieval Names of the Territorial Divisions of Cornwall’, Annual Tionól, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, 28 November, 1997; also presented at a one-day seminar at the University of Sydney, 11 February, 1998.
  • ‘Fingar/Gwinear/Guigner: an “Irish” Saint in Medieval Cornwall and Brittany’, International Conference on Hagiography, University College Cork, 9-13 April 1997.
  • ‘Henry II and his “Celtic” Dominions: a Cornish View’, 75th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Brock University, 30 May-2 June 1996.
  • ‘St Petroc and his Relics: a Cornish Saint in Breton Toponymy and Liturgy’, 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 4-7 May, 1995.
  • ‘Saintly Associations: the Installation of a Cornish Cult in Medieval Brittany’, Celtic Conference 1995, St Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 25 February, 1995.
  • ‘Narrative Disjuncture in Caradog of Llancarfan’s Vita Cadoci’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 4-7, 1994.
  • ‘Einion Wann: Bardd y Tywysogion’, 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 6-9 May, 1993.