WHAT did it mean to be ‘Norman’ in Medieval Pembrokeshire? That is the question which will be addressed by Dr Karen Jankulak at the next Pembrokeshire Historical Society lecture meeting on April 10.

Dr Jankulak has worked at the School of Celtic Studies is Dublin and is currently working as a lexicographer at the Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University.

“We may think of the Normans as a group of singular identity who interrupted native governance of Pembrokeshire in the eleventh century. In reality, the Normans were themselves a force of diverse origins, and Norman Pembrokeshire would be central to encounters between the Welsh, Flemish and Irish, amongst others,” said Dr Janaluk.

“The arrival of the Normans was also accompanied by significant religious change across the western church.”

Dr Janaluk’s talk will explore some aspects of this multifaceted society as seen through language, literature and ecclesiastical history, as well as underlining the extent to which our usual image of the Normans does not do justice to the complexities of the situation.

The talk will be held in the Pembrokeshire Archives building in Prendergast, Haverfordwest on Friday, April 10 at 2.30pm. All are welcome.