http://hdl.handle.net/2160/378 Traethodau estynedig MA o Adran y Gymraeg y dyfarnwyd anrhydeddau iddynt neu sydd o ddiddordeb Cymreig neu Geltaidd / MA dissertations from the Department of Welsh that received a distinction or are of Welsh or Celtic interest Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:18:20 GMT 2013-06-18T07:18:20Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7869 Laoidh Chab an Dosain McCann, James Joseph Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7869 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/4637 Constructions of Gender in Medieval Welsh Literature Kapphahn, K. R. L. The portrayal of men and women in medieval Welsh literature serves as a social tool by which to illustrate or instruct in ideal behaviour, and to demonstrate the consequences of refusing to fulfil one's obligations in society. From the earliest 'heroic' poetry, where male and female are shown as distinctly opposite poles in the domestic and martial spheres, to the complex relationships of the Four Branches, literary characterisation is employed to address both the ideal and the failures of the social system. This literature is not strictly about the triumph of man, but of the balance of male and female power, the ties of family and obligation, and the importance of adherence to a social code in order to remain accepted by society. Through examining the historic poems of Taliesin, the Gododdin and the englynion cycles, the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and the tale of Culhwch ac Olwen, we can form a picture of the evolution of gender roles in early Wales, in which ways they remain constant and in which they shift over the course of the early middle ages. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/4637 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2160/377 A Description of the Middle Cornish Tregear Manuscript Chaudhri, Talat A description of the Middle Cornish manuscript found amongst the Puleston Papers by John Mackechnie in 1949, now Add. MS. 46397 in the British Library. The manuscript is a sixteenth-century translation into Cornish of thirteen homilies published by Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London in 1555 forming the latter part of his A profitable and necessary doctrine, with certayne homelyes adioyned therevnto. (Only one of these originals was his own, the majority by John Harpesfeld, Archdeacon of London and two by Oliver Pendilton.) An analysis is made of the historical context in which the translation was made, the likely provenance and dating of the manuscript and the extent of collaboration by co-translators with the principal translator John Tregear. The replacement of the expected thirteenth homily by a translation of an unknown English original on the same subject is also discussed. The quality of the translation and the effects of this upon the syntax and vocabulary of the Cornish homilies is described, including a discussion of the extent to which the macaronic character of the text is deliberate. The manuscript is examined as evidence for linguistic change in Middle Cornish, addressing two major areas: the morphology of personal pronouns, verb forms and conjugated prepositions; the major phonological features of the Cornish in the manuscript, principally the loss of vowel quality in unstressed syllables and the incidence of the sound-change s/j as an effect of palatalisation. Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2160/377 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z