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.

该项目汇集了中世纪斯旺西的多个视角，将那些从中世纪证人（文本和材料）中恢复的人与当地社区和今天斯旺西游客对历史城镇的新见解联系起来。我们的研究将使研究人员和更广泛的观众获得新的主要资源，利用这些材料来探索斯旺西在中世纪的地形和多个文化社区和身份导航中世纪城镇。斯旺西作为一个案例研究的独特潜力是基于梵蒂冈图书馆（Vat. Lat. 4015），其中汇集了目击者的帐户挂'威廉克雷格'在？1289，代表了城市内不同的文化，社会，性别和种族观点。关注城市景观中的感知和视角问题，并利用比较分析和解释，该项目还将更广泛地扩展我们对中世纪地方和身份的理解。该研究将涉及英语系，斯旺西大学（SU），地理，考古学和古生态学学院，贝尔法斯特女王大学（QUB）和数字人文系，伦敦国王学院（DDH）的团队。该项目还建立在与斯旺西市和县（CCS）和格拉摩根格温特考古信托基金（GGAT）的合作伙伴关系上，这支持了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的目标是再生和CCS渴望创造一个特定的身份为城市的这一部分作为“城堡区”，促进它作为旅游业的焦点。这项研究将有助于在中世纪城镇内重新装饰城堡，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QUB的GIS中创建，使用回溯计划分析方法和从考古和历史来源收集的数据。主要成果将是斯旺西c.1100-1400的交互式数字地图（以及两个中世纪城堡的较小的地理平面图），包含制图和形态数据。该地图将与在线版本和翻译的帐户'威廉克雷格'由威廉德布雷奥斯，高尔勋爵，在？1289（MS Vat. Lat. 4015）。虽然历史学家（特别是Robert Bartlett在他的微观历史“The Hanged Man”，2004）之前已经研究了这个中世纪的文本，但它在扩展我们对中世纪城镇的理解方面的巨大潜力尚未被利用。目击者描述了一系列的地点（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-诺曼和威尔士;世俗和宗教;男性和女性;领主，伯吉斯和不法之徒）。每一种叙事都以不同的方式表现了城市空间，为中世纪城市提供了不同的优势点（文字和隐喻）。该项目网站将由DDH开发，使用户能够同时使用文本和地图，使用谷歌地图将中世纪城镇置于现代城市之上，并为个人电脑和移动的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“映射中世纪切斯特”项目中建立的模型。它使中世纪斯旺西在比较的角度进行检查，并为该项目开发的创新数字技术得到加强。该项目将通过与非高等教育机构合作伙伴共同制作的在线资源和口译材料，吸引不同的受众。路面标记系列将使用我们的研究，创造一个可见的，永久存在中世纪斯旺西在今天的城市。

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

Medieval Cityscapes Today

今天的中世纪城市景观

• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: 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