Böcker av John Morgan-Guy

In 2007 a collection of short essays was published as A Bold Imagining to mark the 175th anniversary of the opening of St David's College, Lampeter to students in 1827. Now the Lampeter campus of University of Wales Trinity St David, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of its foundation, An Unfolding Vision is a substantially updated and enlarged edition of that book, containing many of the original essays but also several new contributions, all lavishly illustrated. Each one of the contributors was and is in one way or another closely associated with this historic institution, and an expert in their respective fields. The volume is not intended to be a narrative history, but rather fascinating glimpses into 200 years of collegiate life, and those who formed and shaped it.

This volume consists of five papers selected from a corpus of material researched over the past quarter of a century. None has previously been published, and they represent the author's interest in church history, medical history and the visual arts. Three of the five papers are based on lectures given at conferences or public occasions; the other two derive from research conducted at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History in 2010 and 2020.

During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. This collection makes clear, that this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both Church and State.