Agents persons, peoples and institutions
Browse and discover
A module for identifying agents - encompassing persons, peoples and organisations - and managing information about them has been around for many years, continually evolving as time went by, but what was absent all this time is a public interface for accessing relevant data in a user-friendly way.
This is a first attempt at offering such an interface, which is provided "as-is" and should be considered beta-quality for now (not that there is any official product release cycle as such but using the label is a convenient means to sound the right alarm bells). It currently consists of a basic search, aggregated data overviews for individual agents, and hover-card labels that you will meet elsewhere in the catalogue.
I am aware of duplicates, uneven coverage and other shortcomings that typically arise from the progressive nature of this website or simply, lack of personpower. An earlier version of the interface was available to editors partly because it helps us address some of those issues. None of these objections, however, seemed to weigh heavily against the alternative, which is having nothing at all to offer.
Note that for convenience's sake, many agents are not formally indexed but are nonetheless included by exclusive virtue of being linked. It is a wonderful forte of the system that allows us to retrieve and bring together disparate data from disparate data sources, but some useful metadata will be missing and discoverability is more limited as a result. For instance, we may be linking to a scribe whose name and associated data can be retrieved and presented, but without, say, a floruit it will be difficult to find this person within the appropriate time range. I say "difficult" because it is possible, to an extent, to rely on the dates we have, if any, for associated objects (manuscripts, scribal hands), but such a circuitous approach comes with limitations of its own and is not necessarily methodologically sound.
Meanwhile, I hope that the new interface will improve your experience in using this website. Next up are thematic categories for scribes (in the broadest, non-pejorative sense of the word), authors and scholars.
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- FiacreIrish hermit and saint who became associated with the monastery of Breuil in northwestern France.
- Gabriel Milin1822–1895Breton poet, folklorist and collector
- Rennes, Bibliothèque universitaire centrale
Library at Rennes 2, Campus de Villejean, that houses a historical collection (Fonds ancien). Previously part of the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire.
- Séamus Mág Uidhirfl. early 18th centuryIrish scribe active in Bréifne.
- Gwallawgfl. 6th centuryKing in Britain during the sixth century, described as son of Llaenog (Llenawg).
- Coirpre Crom [king of Uí Maine]fl. 6th centurySixth-century king of Uí Maine, son of Feradach.
- Gwydion fab DônCharacter in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi and elsewhere.
- ArianrhodCharacter in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi (Math uab Mathonwy), sister of Gwydion and Gilfaethwy; niece of Math, king of Gwynedd; mother of Dylan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes, to whom she gives birth when her viginity is tested in preparation for her position as Math’s foot-holder.
- Illtudfl. 5th/6th centuryWelsh saint, first abbot of Llanilltud Fawr (Llantwit Major).
- Euddogwysupp. fl. 6th/7th centuryAccording to his vita in the Book of Llandaff, an early bishop of Llandaff, but who is historically obscure; later a patron saint of Llaneuddogwy, Monmouthshire.
- Iaco ab Dewi1648–1722Welsh religious writer, copyist, translator and collector of manuscripts.
- Ifan Llwyd ap Dafyddd. c.1607–1609Author of a history of early (legendary) Britain based on Galfridian sources. A colophon to the text identifies him as a squire from Merioneth.
- Simwnt Fychanfl. c.1530–1606Welsh poet.
- Siôn Phylipd. 1620Welsh poet.
- William Williams [d. 1791]d. 1791Welsh Methodist cleric, hymn-writer and author.
- Abbeville, Bibliothèque municipale
Public library and archival institution in Abbeville (Somme department, northern France), part of the Médiathèques of Abbeville.
- Merseburg, Domstiftsbibliothekinstitution
- Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek-LMBinstitution
- Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
Previously, Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek (1948-2004).
- Killarney, Franciscan friaryFriary established in 1860 by a group of Belgian Franciscans after an initial attempt to set up themselves up in Gorey, Co. Wexford. The foundation was intended to fill a gap left by the abandonment of Muckross abbey.
- Vesoul, Bibliothèque municipaleinstitution
- Duiske abbey
Mod. Ir. Mainistir an Dubhuisce, also known as Graiguenamanagh/Graignamanagh abbey, is a Cistercian abbey founded in the 13th century in Graiguenamanagh (Co. Kilkenny).
- Brecon priory
Benedictine priory, daughter-house of Battle Abbey.
- Ordnance Survey of Irelandinstitution
- Amiens, Bibliothèque municipaleinstitution
- Tréguier cathedralinstitution
- Saint-Brieuc cathedralinstitution
- Rennes cathedralinstitution
- Vannes cathedralinstitution
- Mont-Saint-Michel abbeyinstitution
Randomised results
A random selecton of authors and those so described.
