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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales

Series Editors Denis Renevey (University of Diane Watt (University of Wales,

Lausanne) Aberystwyth)

Editorial Board Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London) JeanClaude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Fiona Somerset (Duke University) Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)

RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales

JANE CARTWRIGHT

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2008

©JaneCartwright,2008

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CONTENTS

Series Editors’ Preface vii Acknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi Map of Wales showing key places mentioned in the text xiv Map of Brittany showing key places mentioned in the text xv Abbreviations xvii

Introduction

1 2 3

The Welsh Cult of the Virgin Mary 8 Dead Virgins: Feminine Sanctity in Medieval Wales 67 St Non: Rape, Sanctity and Motherhood in Welsh and Breton Hagiography 95 The Harlot and the Hostess: The Middle Welsh Lives of Mary Magdalene and her Sister Martha 122 Buched Seint y Katrin: The Middle Welsh Life of St Katherine of Alexandria and her Cult in Medieval Wales 149 The Desire to Corrupt: Convent and Community in Medieval Wales 176

Notes Bibliography Index

209 261 293

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SERIESEDITORS’ PREFACE

Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages aims to explore the interface between medieval religion and culture, with as broad an understanding of those terms as possible. It puts to the forefront studies which engage with works that significantly contributed to the shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with works that reflect and highlight aspects of medieval culture that have been neglected in the past by scholars of the medieval disciplines. For example, devotional works and the practice they infer illuminate our understanding of the medieval subject and its culture in remarkable ways, while studies of the material space designed and inhabited by medieval subjects yield new evidence on the period and the people who shaped it and lived in it. In the larger field of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defining them more precisely as actors in the cultural field. The series as a whole investigates the European Middle Ages, fromc.500 toc.1500. Our aim is to explore medieval religion and culture with the tools belonging to such disciplines as, among others, art history, philosophy, theology, history, musicology, the history of medicine, and literature. In particular, we would like to promote interdisciplinary studies, as we believe strongly that our modern understanding of the term applies fascinatingly well to a cultural period marked by a less tight confinement and categorization of its disciplines than the modern period. However, our only criterion is academic excellence, with the belief that the use of a large diversity of critical tools and theoretical approaches enables a deeper understanding of medieval culture. We want the series

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to reflect this diversity, as we believe that, as a collection of outstanding contributions, it offers a more subtle representation of a period that is marked by paradoxes and contradictions and which necessarily reflects diversity and difference, however difficult it may sometimes have proved for medieval culture to accept these notions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to a large number of people who have helped in a variety of different ways with this project over the years – some have offered support, advice, suggestions and constructive criticisms, others have shared their knowledge of medieval poetry, prose, manuscripts, relics and art, checked translations or discussed various aspects of this work with me at different points. I would particularly like to thank Cathryn Charnell White, R. Iestyn Daniel, Luned Davies, Sioned Davies, Dylan Foster Evans, Helen Fulton, Marged Haycock, Tristan Gray Hulse, Daniel Huws, Rhiannon Ifans, Christine James, Jacque line Jenkins, Dafydd Johnston, Christine M. Jones, John Koch, Barry Lewis, Katherine J. Lewis, Ceridwen LloydMorgan, Elisa Moras, John MorganGuy, Ann Parry Owen, Owen Thomas and Diane Watt. Of course, I am solely responsible for any errors which remain. I am extremely grateful to the Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales for a grant towards the cost of printing the images in the book, as well as the Depart ment of Welsh at the University of Wales, Lampeter for buying some of the images and the two maps. Many thanks to Antony Smith of the University of Aberystwyth for producing the maps and Lampeter’s Pantyfedwen fund for financial assistance with fieldwork. I am also grateful to the many vicars, priests and parish councils who welcomed me into their churches and allowed me to photograph stainedglass windows, reliquaries and paintings of the saints. Many thanks to the staff at the University of Wales Press and particularly Sarah Lewis, Ennis Akpinar, Julian Roskams and Elisabeth Doyle for guiding the book through the Press. Especial thanks are due to my father, Albert Cartwright, who chopped wood, lit fires, cooked, looked after Ifan and offered all manner of practical assistance while I was finishing this volume. Thanks to my partner John

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