Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr in Welsh) in south Wales is probably Britain's oldest center of learning. Scholars of church history have called it 'the Christian axis of the Celtic-speaking peoples' and 'the University of the Atlantic of the Celtic period', and the monastic community there was important across the whole of medieval western Europe. This book provides for the first time a history of St Illtud's monastery...