Location
St Deiniol's Cathedral, Bangor
Link to Register: https://tinyurl.com/Deiniol-a-Diwylliant
This symposium offers a day of stimulating presentations on a number of literary and religious figures associated with St Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor. Beginning with Deiniol himself, we will have an overview of the medieval poetry composed to the saint. This will be followed by three papers on poets with links to the Cathedral: Dafydd ap Gwilym in the fourteenth century; and Edmwnd Prys (1543–1623) and Goronwy Owen (1723–1769), both clerics as well as poets, and both commemorated in the Lady Chapel. The afternoon will close with an exciting discussion of depictions of Deiniol in stained glass, in Bangor Cathedral and other churches in Wales.
Entry and refreshments free, with the kind support of the Cathedral (suggested donation: £5)
[Simultaneous translation is provided for the talks given in Welsh]
Programme
10:00 | Welcome
10:15–11:00 | Prof. Barry Lewis – ‘St Deiniol in the Literature of Medieval Wales’
11:00–11:45 | Prof. Sara Elin Roberts – ‘Dafydd ap Gwilym a Chadeirlan Deiniol’
[‘Dafydd ap Gwilym and Deiniol’s Cathedral’]
Lunch
1:00–1:45 | Rev. Dr. Adrian Morgan – ‘Edmwnd Prys a’r Salmau Cân yn eu Cyd-destun’
[‘Edmwnd Prys and the Metrical Psalms in their Context’]
1:45–2:30 | Prof. Jason Walford Davies – ‘“Trwy Droeau’r Byd”: Ailymweld ag Emyn Goronwy Owen’
[‘Revisiting Goronwy Owen’s Hymn’]
Break
3:15–4:15 | Dr Martin Crampin – ‘Stained Glass at Bangor Cathedral and the Image of St Deiniol’