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

 

  1. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    The archaeology of the early medieval celtic churches – an introduction.

    Edwards, N., 1 Jan 2009, The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches. 2009 ed. Routledge, p. 1-18

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  3. Published

    The early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in south-west Wales: the Irish Sea connection.

    Edwards, N. M., Edwards, N. & Moss, R. (ed.), 1 Jan 2007, Making and Meaning. Proceedings of the 5th International Insular Art Conference: Trinity College Dublin 2005.. 2007 ed. Four Courts Press, p. 184-197

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  4. Published

    The early medieval sculpture of Bangor Fawr yn Arfon.

    Edwards, N., 1 Jan 2006, The Modern Traveller to Our Past: Papers in Honour of Ann Hamlin. Meck, M. (ed.). 2006 ed. DPK, p. 105-111

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  5. Published

    Viking-age sculpture in north-west Wales: welath, power, patronage and the Christian landscape

    Edwards, N., 1 Jan 2011, Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic history and Law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards. Edmonds, F. & Russell, P. (eds.). 2011 ed. Boydell, p. 73-87

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  6. Chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  7. Published

    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. 177-203

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  8. Article › Research
  9. Published

    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 publicationArticle

  10. Book › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  11. Published

    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/ReportBook

  12. Published

    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/ReportBook

  13. Published

    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/ReportBook

  14. Published

    The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches

    Edwards, N. (ed.), 1 Jan 2009, 2009 ed. Routledge. (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monotraphs; vol. 29)

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  15. Published

    The Early Medieval Sculpture of Wales: Text, Pattern and Image

    Edwards, N. M., 27 Apr 2015, Cambridge University Press.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  16. Book › Research › Peer-reviewed
  17. Published

    Life in Early Medieval Wales

    Edwards, N., 22 Aug 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 511 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  18. Published

    Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond: Converting the Isles II

    Edwards, N. (ed.), Flechner, R. (ed.) & Mhaonaigh, M. N. (ed.), 31 Oct 2017, Brepols Publishers. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages)

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

  19. Commissioned report › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  20. Published
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