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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A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Vol. 2 South West Wales
Edwards, N. M., 1 Jan 2007, University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies Monograph for University of Wales Press, Cardiff.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculptures in Wales: Volume 3 North Wales
Edwards, N., 15 Apr 2013, 2013 ed. University of Wales Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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A rediscovered piece of early medieval sculpture from Silian, Ceredigion
Edwards, N. M. & Vousden, N., 19 Jun 2015, In: Archaeology in Wales. 53Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › 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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Categorizing Roundhouse Settlements in Wales: A Critical Perspective.
Edwards, N. M., Ghey, E., Edwards, N. & Johnston, R., 1 Dec 2008, In: Studia Celtica. 42, 1, p. 1-25Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Celtic Saints and early medieval archaeology.
Edwards, N. M., Edwards, N., Thacker, A. (ed.) & Sharpe, R. (ed.), 1 Jan 2002, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. 2002 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 225-265Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Characterizing the Welsh Roundhouse: chronology, inhabitation and landscape
Edwards, N. M., Ghey, E., Edwards, N., Johnston, R. & Pope, R., 1 Nov 2007, In: Internet Archaeology. 23Research 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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Chi-Rhos, Crosses and Pictish Symbols: Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Early Medieval Wales and Scotland
Edwards, N., 2017, Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond: Converting the Isles II. Edwards, N., NÍ MHAONAIGH, MÁIRE. & Fletcher, R. (eds.). Brepols PublishersResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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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Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World. Studies in Honour of James Graham-Campbell
Edwards, N., 1 Nov 2014, In: Medieval archaeology. 58, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Early Medieval Settlement and Field Systems at Rhuddgaer, Anglesey
Hopewell, D. & Edwards, N., Dec 2017, In: Archaeologia Cambrensis. 166Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early Medieval Wales: material evidence and identity
Edwards, N., 31 Dec 2017, In: Studia Celtica. 51, p. 65-87Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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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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Edward Lhuyd and the origins of early medieval Celtic archaeology
Edwards, N., Sept 2007, In: Antiquaries Journal. 87, p. 165-196Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Edward Lhuyd – an archaeologist’s view
Edwards, N., 1 Jan 2010, In: Welsh History Review. 25, 1, p. 20-50Research 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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Life in Early Medieval Wales
Edwards, N., 22 Aug 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 511 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Monuments in a landscape, the early medieval sculpture of St David’s.
Edwards, N. M., Edwards, N., Hamerow, H. (ed.) & MacGregor, A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain: Essays in Honour of Rosemary Camp.. 2001 ed. Oxbow Books, p. 53-77Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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New discoveries of early medieval carved stones in Wales
Edwards, N., Jun 2016, In: Archaeologia Cambrensis. 165, p. 187-199Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Insular art.
Edwards, N. M. (ed.), Redknap, M. (ed.), Edwards, N. (ed.), Youngs, S. (ed.), Lane, A. (ed.) & Knight, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2002, 2002 ed. Oxbow Books.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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
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Raising the Dead. Early Aledieval,Yaine Stones in Northumbria
Edwards, N., 1 Nov 2015, In: Medieval archaeology. 59, 1, p. 340-340Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review