Publications
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Chapter 2: ‘Celtic Spells and Counterspells’ from Book: Understanding Celtic Religion: Revisiting the Pagan Past
(2015)
This is a chapter from Understanding Celtic Religion: Revisiting the Pagan Past, edited by Katja Ritari and Alexandra Bergholm. Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both ...
Chapter 1: "Crime Fiction in German: Concepts, Developments and Trends" from book: Crime Fiction in German
(2016)
This is a chapter from Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi, edited by Katharina Hall. It is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime narratives from the nineteenth century to ...
FfugLen
(2008)
FfugLen is the Welsh word for fiction but is also a play on the words 'ffug' (meaning fake or false) and 'len' (the prepositive of 'llenyddiaeth' or literature) implying that these images are often ambiguous. This title ...
Welsh Not
(2024)
The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools. It was often accompanied by corporal punishment, and is widely thought to have been responsible for the decline of the ...
Gentility in Early Modern Wales
(2024)
Early modern Wales was a place of opportunity for the gentry. The Acts of Union with England granted them powers to govern their local communities, the Reformation enabled them to add former monastic lands to their estates, ...