The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 26-JC1
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- University of Wales Press
- ISBN
- 978-1783168675
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Cartwright had been researching the cult of saints for many years, contributing to various conferences on medieval hagiography and collaborating with other scholars. She was aware that no previous volume addressed the relationship between the many different Latin and vernacular versions of the Life of St Ursula or the reasons why Ursula was such a popular medieval saint whose cult manifested itself in a range of different media, from medieval music and hymns to particularly fine artwork and reliquaries. For this reason, she set about identifying and contacting scholars who she felt could contribute specific subject expertise to the scholarly debate on St Ursula. This included scholars with expert knowledge of the archives in Cologne (Klaus Militzer), the relics (Scott Montgomery), Middle English texts (William Marx), and the Brut tradition (Elizabeth Bryan), as well as younger scholars who were completing PhD theses (such as the Musicologist Kristin Hoefener). Cartwright was solely responsible for organising the international conference at which the preliminary papers were discussed and from the outset she intended to use this as an opportunity to refine the research questions that would be most appropriate in a multi-disciplinary volume on the international cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. Cartwright’s editorial role was key in a collaboration that brought together scholars from many different countries some of whom were inevitably not writing in their first language and she ensured high editorial standards as well as academic coherence throughout. Her management of the project not only facilitated collaboration between scholars, but also steered the direction of individual chapters in order to avoid repetition and ensure that each chapter made a unique and original contribution to the study while also forming part of a coherent analysis of the transmission and widespread popularity of the cult.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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