'Y gr a gyll y goron': poetry and politics in fifteenth-century Wales

“贵族诗人”（beirdd yr uchelwyr）的证词长期以来一直被认为是征服后威尔士社会，文化和政治历史的宝贵来源。这个项目旨在提供一个全面的研究之间的格林杜尔叛乱的崩溃和亨利都铎加入英国王位的几十年威尔士政治和professionalpoetry的相互关系。它将解决以下研究问题：如何可信的是吟游诗人的诗歌作为一个历史来源？这些材料能告诉我们中世纪晚期威尔士的政治文化吗？诗人们是如何以诗歌和话语的方式参与到当时的重大历史事件中的？威尔士领导人在多大程度上利用诗歌表演作为政治舞台和政治交流的载体？虽然在这些主题上都有一些优秀的作品，但出版的批评倾向于采取对单个作品或文本样本进行更详细研究的一般调查或更详细的研究的形式，以及现在早就应该进行的专著长度的重新评估。

The testimony of 'the poets of the nobility' (beirdd yr uchelwyr) has long been recognised as aninvaluable source for the social, cultural, and political history of post-conquest Wales. This projectaims to provide a comprehensive study of the interrelationship of Welsh politics and professionalpoetry in the decades between the collapse of the Glyn Dwr rebellion and the accession of HenryTudor to the English throne. It will address the following research questions: how credible is thebardic poetry as an historical source? What can this material tell us about the political culture of latemedieval Wales? How did the poets engage rhetorically and discursively with the major historicalevents of the day? To what extent did Welsh leaders make use of poetic performance as a site ofpolitical theatre and as a vehicle for political communication? While some excellent work has beendone on each of these topics, published criticism has tended to take the form either of general surveysor of more detailed studies of a single oeuvre or sample of texts, and a monograph-length reappraisalis by now long overdue.