City Witness: Place and Perspective in Medieval Swansea

该项目汇集了中世纪斯旺西的多个视角，将从中世纪目击者（包括文本和材料）中恢复的内容与今天斯旺西当地社区和游客对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导航中世纪城镇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。《威廉·克拉格》（William Cragh）被绞死的目击证人的证词，汇集在一起。1289，代表了城市中不同的文化、社会、性别和种族观点。该项目关注城市景观的感知和视角问题，通过比较分析和解释，也将扩展我们对中世纪地点和身份的更广泛理解。这项研究将涉及斯旺西大学（SU）英语系、贝尔法斯特女王大学（QUB）地理、考古和古生态学院以及伦敦国王学院（DDH）数字人文学系的团队。该项目还建立在与斯旺西市和县（CCS）和格拉摩根古特考古信托（GGAT）的合作伙伴关系上，这巩固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是重建的目标，CCS希望为城市的这一部分创造一个特定的身份，作为“城堡区”，促进它成为旅游业的焦点。这项研究将有助于重新定位城堡在中世纪的城镇，并重新振兴中世纪斯旺西作为遗产资产和旅游目的地。中世纪斯旺西的数字地图将在QUB的GIS中创建，使用回溯计划分析的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1100-1400年的交互式数字地图（以及两个中世纪城堡的较小推测图），其中包含制图和形态学数据。该地图将与在线版本链接，并翻译高尔勋爵威廉·德·布里奥斯（William de Breos）对威廉·克拉格（William Cragh）的绞刑记录。1289 （MS增值税）Lat。4015)。虽然历史学家以前已经研究过这个中世纪的文本（特别是罗伯特·巴特利特在他的微观历史“被绞死的人”，2004年），但它扩展我们对中世纪城镇的理解的巨大潜力尚未得到利用。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），反映了一系列不同的社会和文化视角（盎格鲁-诺曼和威尔士；世俗和宗教；男性和女性；领主、伯吉斯和歹徒）。每一种叙述都以不同的方式代表了城市空间，提供了中世纪城市的不同优势（字面上和隐喻上）。该项目网站将由DDH开发，将使用户能够同时与文本和地图互动，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在ahrc资助的成功的“绘制中世纪切斯特”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研究，并为该项目开发的创新数字技术得到加强。该项目将通过在线资源和与非高等教育合作伙伴制作的口译材料，吸引不同的受众。人行道标志系列将利用我们的研究为中世纪的斯旺西在今天的城市创造一个可见的、永久的存在。

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.