“May God place a bridge over the River Tywi”: Interrogating flood perceptions and memories in Welsh medieval poetry

Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion CynhadleddPennod

5 Dyfyniadau (Scopus)

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This chapter interrogates the historical flood memories recorded in a particular expression of Welsh medieval culture, that of a praise poem – the dominant genre in medieval Welsh poetry based on a system of formal patronage in which the poet praised his host or patron – by one of the foremost poets of the fifteenth century, Lewys's Glyn Cothi. A new edition and discussion of this poem are presented, and in taking an ecocritical approach and a detailed examination of the context, genre and style of the poem, the chapter investigates the ways in which a single flood event is recorded, described, imagined and remembered. It analyses the potential for integrating such artistic expressions with scientific data in order to inform environmental management and community flood resilience. Overall, the poem records and transmits not only a memory of flooding, but also the geomorphology of the medieval floodplain including observations of climatically and anthropogenically driven changes.
Iaith wreiddiolSaesneg
TeitlCultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather
Is-deitlA Historical Geography Perspective
GolygyddionGeorgina Endfield, Lucy Veale
CyhoeddwrTaylor & Francis
Pennod6
Tudalennau93-111
Nifer y tudalennau19
ISBN (Electronig)9781315461458
ISBN (Argraffiad)9781138207653
Dynodwyr Gwrthrych Digidol (DOIs)
StatwsCyhoeddwyd - 27 Gorff 2017

Cyfres gyhoeddiadau

EnwRoutledge Research in Historical Geography

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