Dr Rhun Emlyn BA (Wales), MA (Wales), PhD (Wales)

Dr Rhun Emlyn

Lecturer

Department of History & Welsh History

Contact Details

Profile

Dr Rhun Emlyn is a medieval historian, with special research interests in ecclesiastical and political history, as well as Welsh history. He has specialised in the careers of medieval Welsh students and clergy and is currently exploring the involvement and role of clergy in the Glyndŵr Rebellion.

Teaching

Module Coordinator
Tutor
Coordinator
Lecturer

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 education, mobility and identity. He has a special interest in the relationship of Church and politics and how this affected Welsh society by the later middle ages. Rhun has researched medieval Welsh students in the English and continental universities and the careers they followed after their time in education. His current research focuses on the contribution of clergy to rebellion in post-Conquest Wales, particularly in the Glyndŵr Rebellion, including detailed studies of certain clergy.

Responsibilities

Part Two Tutor

Office Hours (Student Contact Times)

  • Monday 15:00-16:00
  • Tuesday 16:00-17:00

Publications

Emlyn, R 2025, 'A ‘Hawk in Holy Orders’: the fourteenth-century Marcher cleric who instigated a rebellion', Journal of the Mortimer History Society.
Emlyn, R, Williams, GA & Hall, DL 2025, Llys Glyndŵr: A Creative Response to the Lives of Owain Glyndŵr's Supporters. Ravenmade.
Emlyn, R 2020, 'English, Welsh and Irish Scholars in the New Universities of the Continent in the Later Middle Ages', History, vol. 105, no. 366, pp. 381-401. 10.1111/1468-229X.13016
Emlyn, R 2018, Migration and Integration: Welsh Secular Clergy in England in the Fifteenth Century. in P Skinner (ed.), The Welsh and the Medieval World: Travel, Migration and Exile. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press.
Emlyn, R 2012, Serving Church and State: the Careers of Medieval Welsh Students. in L Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XI: Concerns and Preoccupations. The Fifteenth Century, vol. XI, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 25-40.
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