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To celebrate 175 years since the opening of St David's College, Lampeter (now University of Wales, Lampeter), which coincided approximately with the fourteenth centenary of the death of St David, a conference was held in Lampeter in 2002. At that conference were presented twelve of the twenty-one papers in this handsome volume which has been edited by Jonathan Wooding, director of the Centre for the Study of Religion in Celtic Societies (CSRCS) and the Very Revd J. Wyn Evans, dean of St David's Cathedral who, as I write, has just been elevated to the bishopric. The other papers were added to create a volume which 'brought together studies of the key questions for research that emerged from that conference' (p. ix). The book covers an impressive range of disciplines and presents papers under six main headings: the development of the diocese from the early community, the Life of St David, his cult, his relics and historical aspects of his diocese. After two introductory papers by the editors: Wooding, 'The figure of St David' and Evans, 'Transition and survival: St David and the cathedral', Heather James, in a detailed and well-mapped discussion, considers the geography of the cult of St David, and Mark Redknap discusses the implications of a find of a tenth-century Hiberno-Norse ringed pin 1·2 km north-north-west of St Davids. The core of knowledge of St David is his Life, which is preserved in a longer and shorter version in Latin and also in Middle Welsh, and the editors explicitly acknowledge that the...