Mary Magdalene and Her Sister Martha: An Edition and Translation of the Medieval Welsh Lives

Cartwright's scholarly edition and translation makes the two Middle Welsh lives accessible to an international audience for the first time, showing Wales to have participated fully in European hagiographic traditions. The early development of the sources of these legends is traced in an informative introduction, and detailed comparison of manuscript versions of the Welsh texts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards shows how they were used and adapted into the early modern period. An intro...