Visualizing the Saints of Wales

该项目的目的是建立一个新的数字界面，以帮助公众参与对威尔士圣徒的研究。在一千年的过程中，对圣徒的崇拜是威尔士日常信仰和社会的一个核心方面。宗教改革后，这些传统成为有争议的领域，直到19世纪和20世纪，学者和教会才将它们重新纳入主流。部分原因是圣徒在全国各地城镇和村庄的名字中很高的可见度，这些来自半传奇的“圣徒时代”的中世纪人物在威尔士当地的遗产中扮演着比英格兰大多数地区更重要的角色。然而，公众并没有很好地利用现有资源获得有关该主题的丰富、准确和最新的信息。自2013年以来，两个ahrc资助的项目一直致力于编写威尔士中世纪圣人文本的新版本。第一个集中在威尔士语文学上，主要包括散文《生活》（对他们的事迹和奇迹的文学叙述）和赞美他们的诗歌。第二部是《威尔士圣徒的拉丁生活》。这些文献现在出现在www.welshsaints.ac.uk的学术数字版本中。“可视化威尔士圣徒”是一个在线资源，它将使用另外两个材料集合，为文学文本的研究提供更广泛的范围和吸引力，并为该工作增加进一步的视角。这两条线都提供了视觉上引人注目的展示的潜力。首先是在威尔士周围发现的大量描绘圣徒的图像，从中世纪的壁画到现代的彩色玻璃。第二个是创建数字地图的工具，以说明与圣徒有关的地点：这将由一个数据库提供支持，该数据库记录了每个圣徒与威尔士各地之间的联系，这些联系以地名、教堂奉献、圣井、文本中描述的事件和图像地点的形式出现。用户将能够搜索和浏览图像，并探索全国各地的圣人景观。在他们旅程的所有阶段，他们将有机会在资源的不同方面之间移动和学习，解决诸如：哪些圣人在这里受到尊敬？几个世纪以来，他们是如何被描绘成图像的？他们和他们的风景在文本中是如何描述的？他们还和哪些圣徒有联系？在每一步中，他们都可以访问中世纪的文本，这是我们研究的重点。我们影响战略的一个关键部分是将我们的数据与我们的合作伙伴威尔士古代和历史古迹皇家委员会的国家收藏相结合。每年有超过50万用户访问这些在线馆藏，我们相信，我们的资源之间的互惠联系既可以增强委员会的材料，也可以为我们的工作提供改变游戏规则的范围。与其他组织的现有联系，如访问威尔士和威尔士教会，也将发展，试图将新的资源带给尽可能广泛的感兴趣的公众。

The aim of this project is to build a new digital interface that will help transform public engagement with research into the saints of Wales. The veneration of saints was a central aspect of everyday belief and society in Wales over the course of a millennium. After the Reformation the traditions became contested territory, until they were reclaimed for the mainstream by scholars and the church in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Partly as a result of the high visibility of saints in the names of towns and villages around the country, these medieval figures from a semi-legendary 'Age of the Saints' play a more central part in the local heritage of Wales than in most regions of England. Nonetheless, the public is not well served by existing resources for rich, accurate and up-to-date information on the topic.Two AHRC-funded projects since 2013 have been devoted to preparing new editions of medieval texts on saints in Wales. The first concentrated on Welsh-language literature, comprising in particular prose 'Lives' (literary accounts of their deeds and miracles) and poetry composed in their praise. The second involved the Latin Lives of Welsh saints. This literature is now appearing in a scholarly digital edition at www.welshsaints.ac.uk.'Visualizing the Saints of Wales' is an online resource which will use two further collections of material to give broader reach and appeal to the research on the literary texts, and to add further perspectives to that work. Both strands offer the potential for visually arresting presentation. First is an extensive collection of imagery depicting the saints found around Wales, from medieval wall-paintings to modern stained glass. Second is a tool for creating digital maps to illustrate the localities associated with the saints: this will be powered by a database which records the links between each saint and places around Wales, links that take the form of place-names, church-dedications, holy wells, events described in the texts, and the sites of the images. Users will be able to search and browse the imagery and to explore the landscape of saints across the country. At all stages of their journey they will have the opportunity to move between and learn about different aspects of the resource, addressing questions such as: which saints were venerated here? how are they depicted in imagery over the centuries? how are they and their landscapes described in texts? which other saints are they associated with? And at each step they can access the medieval texts which were the focus of our research.A key part of our impact strategy is to integrate our data with the national collections of our partners, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. These online collections are visited by more than half a million users every year, and we believe that reciprocal links between our resources will both enhance the Commission's material and offer game-changing reach to our work. Existing links with other organisations, such as Visit Wales and the Church in Wales, will also be developed in an attempt to bring the new resource to as wide an interested public as possible.