Professor Marged Haycock

Professor  Haycock specializes in the poetry of the Cynfeirdd and Gogynfeirdd, especially those works which show how many-sided the early Welsh bards were. Following this path, she edited Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Crefyddol Cynnar (1994), and an innovative volume on the legendary Taliesin,   Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin (2007). She is currently preparing a partner volume on the prophetic verse  -   Prophetic Poems from the Book of Taliesin. Her research work in these fields inform three Part II modules,on early Welsh poetry, later Cynfeirdd and the poetry of the Gogynfeirdd, and another research interest is reflected in the popular module on Women and Literature before 1500, and in the book she is currently preparing for the ‘Meddwl a’r Dychymyg Cymreig’ series published by the University of Wales Press.

She has also published on the significance and symbolism of commodities such as food, drink and textiles in the Middle Ages, on the literature and writers of the Marches, the history of scholarship, and on the reception of medieval literature – for example in her contribution on the history of  Princess Heledd in medieval literature  in Gweledigaethau, ed. J. Walford Davies, 2007, a volume in honour of Professor Gwyn Thomas. Professor Haycock is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and has been co-ordinating the activities of our postgraduate students for twenty years, as well as directing a great number of research students.

Publications

'Poezie en textiel in laat middeleeuws Wales', Kelten 37 , (February 2008)

Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin (CMCS, Aberystwyth, 2007).

'Hanes Heledd hyd Yma', in Gweledigaethau: Cyfrol Deyrnged i Gwyn Thomas, ed. Jason Walford Davies (Barddas, Abertawe, 2007)

'Scholarship and Creativity in the work of Ffransis G. Payne', Transactions of the Radnorshire Society (2005).

Taliesin a Brwydr y Coed, J. E. and Gwen Caerwyn Williams Memorial Lecture 2004 (Aberystwyth, 2005).

'''Sy abl fodd, Sibli fain": Sibyl in Medieval Wales', in Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, CSANA Yearbook 3-4 (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005).

'Literary Criticism in Welsh before c. 1300', in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume II, The Middle Ages, eds. Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005).

Cyfoeth y Testun: Ysgrifau ar Lenyddiaeth Gymraeg yr Oesoedd Canol , J. E. Caerwyn Williams Memorial Volume, joint editor with Dafydd Johnston, Jenny Rowland and Iestyn Daniel (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2003).

'Between Cardiff and Cork: Scholarship on Medieval Welsh Literature since 1963', in Retrospect and Prospect in Celtic Studies: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, eds. Máire Herbert and Kevin Murray (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2003).

'Defnydd hyd Ddydd Brawd: Rhai Sylwadau ar Ferched ym Marddoniaeth yr Oesoedd Canol', in Cymru a'r Cymry 2000, ed. Geraint H. Jenkins (Aberystwyth, 2001).