Dr Rhun Emlyn
BA (Wales), MA (Wales), PhD (Wales)
Lecturer
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: rre@aber.ac.uk
- Office:3.04 International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622666
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/9f4bd0c1-c3f4-4ce0-8c98-bf972361c7bd)
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.
Part Two Tutor
- AB2 Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr (HA10420)
- AB2 Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000 (HA11420)
- AB2 Gerald of Wales (HYM2820)
- AB2 Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417 (WH20120)
- AB2 Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417 (WH30120)
Module Coordinator
- AB2 Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300 - 1500 (CY30720)
- AB2 Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500 (CY20720)
- AB1 Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1250-1800 (HC11120)
- AB2 Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswy (HA10420)
- AB1 Cyflwyno Hanes (HA12120)
- AB1 Dissertation (HY30340)
- AB1 England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century (HYM2020)
- AB2 Europe and the World, 1000-2000 (HY12420)
- AB2 Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000 (HA11420)
- AB1 Introduction to History (HY12120)
- AB1 Llunio Hanes (HA20120)
- AB1 Making History (HY20120)
- AB1 Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 (HY11420)
- AB2 People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999 (WH11720)
- AB1 The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915 (HQ39620)
- AB1 Traethawd Estynedig (HA30340)
- AB2 ‘Hands on’ History: Sources and their Historians (HY10420)
Lecturer
- AB2 Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500 (CY20720)
- AB1 Concepts and Sources in Heritage Studies (HYM5120)
- AB1 Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1250-1800 (HC11120)
- AB2 Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswy (HA10420)
- AB1 Cyflwyno Hanes (HA12120)
- AB1 Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a’r Fictoriaid (HA39320)
- AB2 Europe and the World, 1000-2000 (HY12420)
- AB2 Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000 (HA11420)
- AB2 Gerald of Wales (HYM2820)
- AB1 Introduction to History (HY12120)
- AB1 Llunio Hanes (HA20120)
- AB1 Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 (HY11420)
- AB2 People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999 (WH11720)
- AB1 Research Methods and Professional Skills in History (HYM0120)
- AB1 The Making of Modern Wales (WHM1920)
- AB2 Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions (HY24620)
- AB2 ‘Hands on’ History: Sources and their Historians (HY10420)
Tutor
- Monday 15:00-16:00
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.
In: Journal of the Mortimer History Society, 07.04.2025.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ravenmade, 2025.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
In: History, Vol. 105, No. 366, 11.07.2020, p. 381-401.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Welsh and the Medieval World: Travel, Migration and Exile. ed. / Patricia Skinner. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press, 2018.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Fifteenth Century XI: Concerns and Preoccupations. ed. / Linda Clark. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2012. p. 25-40 (The Fifteenth Century; Vol. XI).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
