Professor Nancy Edwards
Emeritus Professor
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Biography
I was appointed a Lecturer in Early Medieval Archaeology at Bangor in 1979 and became Professor of Medieval Archaeology in 2008. I retired in December 2020 and am now Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology. I continue to supervise some research students.
I am a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. I am also an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and the University of Durham.
I completed my BA in Archaeology, Ancient and Medieval History at Liverpool University in 1976. I then moved to the University of Durham where I gained a PhD in Archaeology. My thesis examined early medieval sculpture in the Irish Midlands.
Research
My research is multidisciplinary embracing Archaeology, History and Art History. I am particularly interested in early medieval Wales c. AD 400–1100. I also have a continuing interest in early medieval Ireland and Scotland as well as aspects of the history of archaeology.
My book, Life in Early Medieval Wales (funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship) was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
Much of my research continues to focus on early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales. I am interested not only in the monuments themselves but also in their landscape contexts and what they can tell us about the early medieval society, identity, the Church, patronage and wealth. I have published two volumes of A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales, Volume II, South-West Wales (2007); Volume III, North Wales (2013).
I am currently working, with Gary Robinson (Bangor University) and Howard Williams (University of Chester), on a biography of the ninth-century Pillar of Eliseg. I have also become interested in early medieval graffiti as part of my research on the sculptural assemblage from St Patrick’s Chapel, near St Davids.
Areas of Teaching & Supervision
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Celtic Crosses.
Edwards, N. M., Edwards, N. & Koch, J. T. (ed.), 1 Jan 2006, Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. 2006 ed. ABC-CLIO LtdResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales: context and function.
Edwards, N. M. & Edwards, N., 1 Jan 2001, In: Medieval archaeology. 45, p. 15-39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From antiquarians to archaeologists in nineteenth-century Wales: The question of prehistory
Edwards, N. M., Gould, J., Evans, N. (ed.) & Pryce, H. (ed.), 1 Dec 2013, Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective: 1850–1950. 2013 ed. Ashgate, p. 143-164Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Pillar of Eliseg, Llantysilio. Incomplete inscribed cross and cairn.
Edwards, N. M., Edwards, N., Robinson, G., Williams, H. & Evans, D. M., 1 Jan 2011, In: Archaeology in Wales. 50, p. 57-59Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Christianising the landscape in early medieval Wales: the island of Anglesey
Edwards, N., 3 Jan 2017, Making Christian Landscapes : Conversion and Consolidation in Early Medieval Europe. Carragáin, T. O. & Turner, S. (eds.). Cork University Press, p. 177-203Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Afterlives: reinventing early medieval sculpture in Wales
Edwards, N., 1 Sept 2020, In: Archaeologia Cambrensis. 2020, 169, p. 1-29Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Charles Thomas
Edwards, N., 22 Dec 2023, Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 21, p. 445-465 20 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Early medieval Wales: a framework for archaeological research.
Edwards, N. M., Edwards, N., Lane, A., Bapty, I. & Redknap, M., 1 Jan 2005, In: Archaeology in Wales. 45, p. 33-46Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Protecting carved stones in Scotland and Wales
Edwards, N. M. & Hall, M. A., 1 Jan 2006, In: Church Archaeology. 7-9, p. 127-129Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review