Dr Rhun Emlyn
Teaching Fellow
Contact
Email: rre@aber.ac.uk
Phone: 2666
Profile
Rhun Emlyn BA, MA (Wales) is a Welsh medium teaching fellow in the department. He is a medieval historian, with special research interests in ecclesiastical and political history, as well as Welsh history. His current work concentrates on medieval Welsh students, their careers and their influence on European and Welsh society, and he is completing a PhD thesis on the topic.
Teaching Areas
Rhun Emlyn teaches modules on Welsh history and medieval history, including ‘Argyfwng, Gwrthryfel a Ffydd’ [Crisis, Rebellion and Faith] which serves as an introduction to European history between 1100 a 1540. He also teaches on introductory first year modules, and second and third year core modules including supervising dissertations.
Research
Rhun Emlyn has research interests in aspects of Welsh history and broader European history in the middle ages, especially ecclesiastical and political history. These include studying the sense of identity in Wales, the career opportunities available and the connections that existed across Europe through the church. He has a special interest in the relationship of church and politics and how this effected Wales’ situation by the later middle ages. Rhun Emlyn received a Welsh medium teaching scholarship to pursue postgraduate research into these areas, and he is completing a PhD thesis in the department at the moment. The purpose of the thesis is to study medieval Welsh students with the emphasis on finding these students in the English and continental universities and seeing the careers they followed after their time in education; this study therefore raises issues which relate to a number of fields such as education, church life and politics. The intended outcome of this research would be a greater understanding of Wales’ relationship with the universities, the importance of the universities to Welsh society and the contribution of these students to the life of the time.
Papers Given
2009
- 'Murderers, Lawyers and Priests: Medieval Welsh Students at Oxford' in the Department of History and Welsh History's postgraduate research seminar series, May 2009
2010
- 'Cymru, Paris a Thu Hwnt: Cyfraniad Myfyrwyr Cymreig Paris at Fywyd Eglwysig yr Oesoedd Canol' [Wales, Paris and Beyond: the Contribution of Welsh Students in Paris to Medieval Church Life] in the Aberystwyth Postgraduate Colloquium, January 2010
- 'In Pursuit of Learning: Medieval Welsh Students Abroad' in the Department of History and Welsh History's postgraduate research seminar series, February 2010
- 'Esgobion, Gwleidyddion a Chyfreithwyr: Myfyrwyr Cymreig Canoloesol a'u Gyrfaoedd' [Bishops, Politicians and Lawyers: Medieval Welsh Students and their Careers] in the Welsh Medium Conference, Gregynog, May 2010
- 'Serving Church and State: the Careers of Medieval Welsh Students' in the Fifteenth Century Conference, Southampton, September 2010
- 'Cymry a'r Curia: Myfyrwyr Cymreig yng Ngwasanaeth y Pab' [The Welsh and the Curia: Welsh Students in the Service of the Pope] in the Fifth Bangor Colloquium on Medieval Wales, October 2010
Future Papers
- 'Scholar-Monks in the Western Church: Monastic Wales and the Universities' - Leeds International Medieval Congress, 11-14 Gorffennaf/July 2011
- 'In Pursuit of Learning: Welsh Students in England - Thirteenth-Century England Conference, Aberystwyth 5-8 Medi/September 2011