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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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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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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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
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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. 73-87Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Wales and the Britons 350-1064
Edwards, N., 1 Dec 2014, In: Welsh History Review. 27, 2, p. 368-370Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Early Medieval Sculpture of Wales: Text, Pattern and Image
Edwards, N. M., 27 Apr 2015, Cambridge University Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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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/Report › Book
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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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Vlog to Death: Project Eliseg's Video-Blogging
Tong, J., Evans, S., Williams, H., Edwards, N. & Robinson, G., 1 May 2015, In: Internet Archaeology. 39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review