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The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most
popular and relic-rich of all saints' cults in the medieval period.
This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of
essays in English to explore the development and transmission of
the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of
different sources including physical remains, literary texts,
artistic representations and medieval music.
Mary Magdalene and Her Sister Martha: An Edition and Translation of
the Medieval Welsh Lives provides scholarly editions and English
translations of the medieval Welsh versions of the legends of Mary
Magdalene and Martha. Described by Victor Saxer as medieval best
sellers, these hagiographical tales, which described how Mary
Magdalene and her sister Martha survived a perilous sea voyage from
the holy land and evangelised Provence, were available in many
different Latin and vernacular versions and circulated widely in
the medieval West. The texts were translated or adapted into Middle
Welsh some time before the mid-fourteenth century: the Middle Welsh
Life of Mary Magdalene is extant in thirteen manuscripts and the
Middle Welsh Life of Martha is preserved in eight of the same
manuscripts. Jane Cartwright makes the Middle Welsh versions
available to an international audience for the first time and
provides a detailed study of the Welsh manuscripts that contain the
texts, a comparison between the different manuscripts versions and
a discussion of the wider hagiographical context of the texts in
Wales. The volume includes transcriptions, editions and
translations of the two Lives based on the oldest most complete
extant versions found in the Red Book of Talgarth c. 1400, as well
as an additional section of text describing Mary Magdalene's life
before Christ's crucifixion from the fifteenth-century Aberystwyth,
National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 27ii. The edition is
accompanied by a comprehensive glossary which provides translations
of all medieval Welsh words that occur in the texts, an analysis of
the development and transmission of the legends, as well as a
discussion of the relevance and popularity of these two female
saints in late medieval Wales: medieval Welsh poetry, church
dedications, and holy wells are also considered.
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