Dr Ben Guy
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Role
Director of Studies for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
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Research
Publications include the following:
Medieval Welsh Genealogy: An Introduction and Textual Study, Studies in Celtic History (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020).
Offa's Dyke Journal 4, Special Issue: Borders in Early Medieval Britain, ed. B. Guy, H. Williams and L. Delaney (2022).
The Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March: New Contexts, Studies, and Texts, ed. B. Guy, G. Henley, O. W. Jones, and R. Thomas, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020).
For a full list of publications, see his departmental website.
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Awards, Degrees, Honours
BA Hons (Cantab.), MA (Brown), PhD (Cantab.)
He won the Dillwyn Medal 2021 for early career research excellence in the Humanities & Creative Arts, awarded by the Learned Society of Wales.
His book, Medieval Welsh Genealogy: an Introduction and Textual Study (Boydell, 2020), won the Francis Jones Prize for best book on Welsh history in 2020, awarded by Jesus College, Oxford.
Link to departmental profile: https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/people/Ben.Guy/
Dr Ben Guy is a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Assistant Professor in Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, where he teaches medieval Welsh language and literature.
His research interests range across early Insular history, medieval historical writing, Welsh manuscript studies, and Celtic philology, as well as medieval Welsh language and literature.