Visualizing the Saints of Wales

这个项目的目的是建立一个新的数字界面，帮助将公众对研究的参与转变为威尔士圣徒。对圣徒的崇拜是威尔士千百年来日常信仰和社会的一个中心方面。宗教改革后，这些传统成为争论不休的领域，直到19世纪和20世纪被学者和教会重新纳入主流。部分是由于圣徒在全国各地城镇和村庄的名字中的高度可见度，这些来自半传奇的圣徒时代的中世纪人物在威尔士当地遗产中扮演着比英格兰大多数地区更重要的角色。然而，现有的资源并没有很好地为公众提供关于这一主题的丰富、准确和最新的信息。自2013年以来，AHRC资助的两个项目致力于编写关于威尔士圣徒的中世纪文本的新版。第一本集中在威尔士语文学上，尤其包括散文《生活》(对他们的事迹和奇迹的文学描述)和在他们的赞美中创作的诗歌。第二个涉及威尔士圣徒的拉丁生活。这部文学作品现已出现在www.Welshsaints.ac.uk的学术电子版中。《威尔斯圣徒的视觉化》是一个在线资源，它将使用另外两个素材集来扩大对文学文本的研究范围和吸引力，并为这项工作增加更多的视角。这两条线都有可能在视觉上扣人心弦。首先是大量描绘威尔士周围圣徒的图像，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以显示与圣徒相关的地点的工具：这将由一个数据库提供支持，该数据库记录每个圣徒与威尔士周围地点之间的联系，采取地名、教堂奉献仪式、圣井、文本中描述的事件和图像地点的形式的联系。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并了解这些资源，解决诸如以下问题：这里崇拜哪些圣人？几个世纪以来，他们是如何在图像中被描绘的？他们和他们的风景是如何在文本中描述的？他们还与哪些圣人联系在一起？在每一步，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皇家威尔士古代和历史古迹委员会的国家收藏整合起来。每年有50多万用户访问这些在线收藏，我们相信，我们的资源之间的相互联系将既增强委员会的材料，又为我们的工作提供改变游戏规则的影响。还将发展与其他组织的现有联系，如访问威尔士和威尔士教会，试图将新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.