City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea

该项目汇集了关于中世纪斯旺西的多个视角，将从中世纪目击者(包括文字和材料)中恢复的那些人与当地社区和今天前往斯旺西的游客对这座历史城镇的新见解联系起来。我们的研究将为研究人员和更广泛的受众提供新的主要资源，利用这些材料来探索中世纪斯旺西的地形以及在这座中世纪小镇上航行的多种文化社区和身份。斯旺西作为案例研究的独特潜力是基于梵蒂冈图书馆(VAT)提供的手稿来源。晚些时候。(4015)，汇集了1289年威廉·克劳被绞死的目击者描述，代表了城市中不同的文化、社会、性别和种族观点。该项目聚焦于城市景观中的感知和视角问题，并利用比较分析和解释，还将扩大我们对中世纪地点和身份的理解。这项研究将涉及斯旺西大学英语系、地理、考古和古生态学院、贝尔法斯特女王大学(QUB)和伦敦国王学院数字人文系(DDH)的团队。该项目还建立在与斯旺西市县(CCS)和格拉摩根·格温特考古信托基金(GGAT)的合作伙伴关系上，这两个伙伴关系支撑着我们的研究和我们更广泛参与的承诺。斯旺西的高街地区目前是重建的目标，CCS渴望为这一地区创造一个特定的身份，作为‘城堡街区’，促进它作为一个旅游焦点。这项研究将有助于将城堡重新安置在中世纪小镇内，并重新振兴中世纪斯旺西作为遗产资产和游客目的地。中世纪斯旺西的数字地图将在昆士兰大学的地理信息系统中创建，使用倒退计划分析的方法以及从考古和历史来源收集的数据。主要成果将是斯旺西公元前1100-1400年的交互式数字地图(以及两座中世纪城堡的较小推测平面图)，包含地图和形态数据。该地图将与高尔勋爵威廉·德·布鲁斯(William De Breos)1289年(MS VAT)绞死威廉·克劳(William Cragh)的在线版本和翻译相链接。晚些时候。4015)。虽然这本中世纪的经文以前已经被历史学家研究过(特别是罗伯特·巴特利特在他的微观历史《绞死的人》中，2004年)，但它扩大我们对中世纪小镇的理解的非凡潜力还没有被开发出来。目击者描述了一系列地点(城堡、地牢、集市、绞刑架、伯吉斯的房子)，并反映了一系列不同的社会和文化观点(盎格鲁-诺曼和威尔士；世俗和宗教；男性和女性；勋爵、伯吉斯和亡命之徒)。每一种叙事都以不同的方式代表城市空间，提供了关于中世纪城市的不同视角(字面上和隐喻上)。该项目网站将由DDH开发，使用户能够同时接触文本和地图，使用谷歌地图将中世纪城镇覆盖在现代城市之上，并为个人电脑和移动设备下载多媒体元素。新的3D可视化技术将模拟证人陈述中所代表的视角。这项研究扩展了该团队成功的AHRC资助的“测绘中世纪切斯特”项目中建立的模型。它使人们能够从比较的角度审视中世纪的斯旺西，并加强为该项目开发的创新数字技术。该项目将通过与非高等学校合作伙伴一起制作的在线资源和口译材料，吸引不同的受众。人行道标志系列将利用我们的研究，在今天的城市中创造一个可见的、永久的中世纪斯旺西存在。

This project brings together multiple perspectives on medieval Swansea, connecting those recovered from medieval witnesses (both textual and material) with new insights into the historic town for local communities and visitors to Swansea today. Our research will make new primary resources accessible for researchers and wider audiences, drawing on these materials to explore the topography of Swansea in the Middle Ages and the multiple cultural communities and identities which navigated the medieval town. The unique potential of Swansea as a case study is based on the manuscript source available in the Vatican Library (Vat. Lat. 4015), which brings together eye-witness accounts of the hanging of 'William Cragh' in ?1289, representing diverse cultural, social, gendered and ethnic perspectives within the city. Focusing on questions of perception and perspective within the urban landscape, and drawing on comparative analysis and interpretation, the project will also extend our understanding of place and identity in the Middle Ages more widely. The research will involve teams in the English Department, Swansea University (SU), the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast (QUB), and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London (DDH). The project is also founded on partnerships with the City and County of Swansea (CCS) and the Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust (GGAT), which underpin both our research and our commitment to wider engagement. The High Street area of Swansea is currently targeted for regeneration and CCS aspires to create a specific identity for this part of the city as the 'Castle Quarter', promoting it as a focal point for tourism. This research will help re-situate the Castle within the medieval town, and re-invigorate medieval Swansea as a heritage asset and visitor destination. The digital map of medieval Swansea will be created at QUB in a GIS, using methods of retrogressive plan analysis and data gathered from archaeological and historical sources. The primary outcome will be the interactive digital map of Swansea c.1100-1400 (as well as a smaller conjectural plan of the two medieval castles), containing cartographic and morphological data.The map will be linked with an online edition and translation of the accounts of the hanging of 'William Cragh' by William de Breos, lord of Gower, in ?1289 (MS Vat. Lat. 4015). Whilst this medieval text has been examined previously by historians (notably Robert Bartlett in his micro-history 'The Hanged Man', 2004), its remarkable potential to extend our understanding of the medieval town has not been exploited. The eyewitnesses describe a range of locations (castle, dungeon, marketplace, gallows, burgess's house) and reflect a range of different social and cultural perspectives (Anglo-Norman and Welsh; lay and religious; male and female; lord, burgess and outlaw). Each narrative represents the urban space in different ways, offering diverse vantage-points (literal as well as metaphorical) on the medieval city. The project website will be developed by DDH and will enable users to engage simultaneously with both text and map, to use Google Maps to layer the medieval town over the modern city, and to download multi-media elements for PCs and mobile devices. New 3D visualisation technologies will simulate the perspectives which are represented in the witness statements.This research extends the model established in the team's successful AHRC-funded 'Mapping Medieval Chester' project. It enables medieval Swansea to be examined in a comparative perspective, and the innovative digital techniques developed for that project to be enhanced. This project will engage with diverse audiences, through online resources and interpretation materials produced with the non-HEI partners. The pavement marker series will use our research to create a visible, permanent presence for medieval Swansea in today's city.