City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea

城市见证：中世纪斯旺西的地点和视角

• 批准号: AH/J008915/1
• 负责人: Catherine Clarke
• 金额: $ 29.53万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ008915%2F1
• 关键词: City; Witness; Place; Perspective; Medieval

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.

该项目汇集了对中世纪斯旺西的多种观点，将从中世纪证人（文本和材料）中恢复的人与今天对历史镇的新见解联系起来，今天对当地社区和访客来说，今天到斯旺西的游客。我们的研究将使研究人员和更广泛的受众都可以访问新的主要资源，并利用这些材料来探索中世纪斯旺西的地形以及在中世纪城镇导航的多个文化社区和身份。斯旺西作为​​案例研究的独特潜力是基于梵蒂冈图书馆（Vat。At。4015）中可用的手稿来源，该文字汇集了对“ William Cragh”在？1289年悬挂的目击者的说法，代表了城市内部多元化的文化，社会，社会，社会，性别，性别和种族观点。为了关注城市景观中的感知和观点问题，并借鉴了比较分析和解释，该项目还将扩展我们对中世纪的地点和身份的理解。这项研究将涉及英语系，斯旺西大学（SU），地理学，考古学和古生态学学院，贝尔法斯特皇后大学（QUB）和数字人文科学系国王学院（DDH）的团队。该项目还建立在与斯旺西市和县（CCS）和Glamorgan Gwent考古信托（GGAT）的合作伙伴关系上，该基金会支持我们的研究和我们对更广泛参与的承诺。斯旺西的高街地区目前是重生的目标，CCS渴望为这一地区作为“城堡区”创建特定的身份，将其作为旅游业的焦点。这项研究将有助于重新定位中世纪城镇内的城堡，并重新获得中世纪的斯旺西作为​​遗产资产和访客目的地。中世纪斯旺西的数字地图将在Qub中以GIS在GIS中创建，并采用倒退计划分析的方法和从考古和历史来源收集的数据。主要结果将是Swansea C.1100-1400的交互式数字地图（以及两个中世纪城堡的较小的猜想计划），其中包含制图和形态学数据。该地图将与在线版本和“ William Cragh''link William Cragh'的叙述相关联。尽管历史学家（特别是罗伯特·巴特利特（Robert Bartlett）在他的微观历史的《绞死的人》）中，但该中世纪的文本先前已经检查过，但它的出色潜力是扩展我们对中世纪小镇的理解。目击者描述了一系列位置（城堡，地牢，市场，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 - 诺尔曼和威尔士；外行和宗教信仰；男性和女性；主，伯吉斯和违法）。每个叙述都以不同的方式代表城市空间，在中世纪的城市提供了各种有利位置（字面和隐喻）。该项目网站将由DDH开发，并将使用户同时使用文本和地图，使用Google Maps将中世纪小镇分层在现代城市上，并下载用于PC和移动设备的多媒体元素。新的3D可视化技术将模拟证人陈述中代表的观点。这项研究扩展了团队成功资助的“映射中世纪切斯特”项目中建立的模型。它使中世纪的斯旺西能够以比较的角度进行检查，并为该项目增强了创新的数字技术。该项目将通过与非HEI合作伙伴生产的在线资源和解释材料与不同的受众群体互动。路面标记系列将利用我们的研究为当今城市中的中世纪斯旺西创造一个可见的永久存在。

项目成果

Journal of Medieval History special issue (vol. 41, 2015)

《中世纪史杂志》特刊（2015 年第 41 卷）

• 作者: Clarke, Catherine A.M. (volume Editor)

City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea (this is a website, not a book, but there is nowhere to add websites)

City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea（这是一个网站，不是一本书，但无处添加网站）

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Catherine A M Clarke

Discover Medieval Swansea (leaflet for public audiences)

探索中世纪斯旺西（面向公众的传单）

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Catherine A M Clarke

Medieval Cityscapes Today

今天的中世纪城市景观

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Clarke