{"id":2490,"date":"2014-09-18T03:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=2490"},"modified":"2015-05-11T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:15:59","slug":"zeiser-2013-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/zeiser-2013-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeiser (2013 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sarah Zeiser<\/strong><br \/>\n(<em>Harvard University<\/em>)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The Transmission of the Welsh-Latin &#8216;Lament&#8217; of Rhygyfarch ap Sulien in British Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.i, Part II&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract of Paper at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Session on <strong>\u201cMedieval Writing Materials: \u00a0Texts, Transmission, and the Manifestation of Authority\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nSponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<br \/>\nOrganized by Mildred Budny (RGME)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2013-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\"><strong>2013 Congress<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>First published on our first website on 15 May 2013<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>When he was killed by Normans in 1093, it was said of Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Deheubarth in south Wales: \u201cwith [him] fell the kingdom of the Britons.\u201d \u00a0This apocalyptic statement in the Welsh chronicles matches the fervor and panic contained in a Latin \u2018Lament\u2019 written in 1094 by Rhygyfarch, son of Bishop Sulien of St. David\u2019s. \u00a0Rhygyfarch\u2019s poem records the miserable plight of a people in the midst of conquest, lamenting the suffering of the Welsh people under the cruelty of the French. \u00a0The poem is contained in a single manuscript (London, British Library Cotton MS Faustina C.I., Part II), which must be reevaluated for patterns of transmission in the complex historical context of post-Norman Conquest Britain.<\/p>\n<p>My paper presents a new edition and study of Rhygyfarch\u2019s \u2018Lament\u2019 as both an independent and integrated production. \u00a0Contrary to previous scholarship, I argue that the single leaf that contains the \u2018Lament\u2019 is older than the rest of the manuscript. \u00a0The significance of this assertion\u00a0\u2014 reached through detailed analysis of script, parchment, and text\u00a0\u2014 raises questions as to textual survival and authority. \u00a0Why was the \u2018Lament\u2019 added to a copy of Cicero\u2019s <em>Somnium Scipionis<\/em>? \u00a0Did a Norman or Welsh scribe copy the \u2018Lament\u2019? \u00a0What is the significance of this manuscript\u2019s use of Caroline minuscule for the first time as a book hand in Wales? \u00a0What can the manuscript as a physical artifact tell us of Welsh attitudes towards conquest? \u00a0By examining this unique poem within its manuscript context we may shed light on the importance of Latin composition and the performance of secular texts at a time of immense political upheaval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Zeiser (Harvard University) &#8220;The Transmission of the Welsh-Latin &#8216;Lament&#8217; of Rhygyfarch ap Sulien in British Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.i, Part II&#8221; Abstract of Paper at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2013) Session on \u201cMedieval Writing Materials: \u00a0Texts, Transmission, and the Manifestation of Authority\u201d Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2490\/revisions\/4509"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}