The Writers of Wales Database

CARTWRIGHT, JANE

Email: j.cartwright@lamp.ac.uk

Dr Jane Cartwright is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Welsh at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Her research interests include medieval Welsh religious history, the cult of the Virgin Mary, the history of the nunneries in medieval Wales, virginity literature and Welsh saints’ cults. She is one of the leading scholars working in the field of feminine sanctity and Middle Welsh hagiography and her publications include Y Forwyn Fair, Santesau a Lleianod (University of Wales Press, 1999), Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults (editor and contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2003) and Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press, 2008). Jane has also published in a number of journals including Ceredigion, The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, Medium Ævum, Barn, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, Studia Celtica and The Welsh History Review. She is a member of both the Institute of Medieval Studies and the Centre for the Study of Religion in Celtic Societies. Jane lectures through the mediums of Welsh and English.

Review:
With respect to Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press, 2008)

"…A welcome contribution to the growing field of female spirituality and religious life in the Middle Ages, this book brings Welsh evidence into clear view for the first time. Through a series of detailed case studies including saints cults, religious history and iconography, the book illuminates the context of women s devotional practice in medieval Wales. This is a major addition to comparative religious studies from Wales s leading writer on medieval women and religion..."
Professor Helen Fulton, Department of English, Swansea University


Selected Publications:
Y Forwyn Fair - Santesau a Lleianod: Agweddau Ar Wyryfdod a Diweirdeb Yng Nghymru’r Oesoedd Canol (University of Wales Press, 1999)
Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press, 2008)

Contributed to:
Medieval Women in Their Communities (University of Wales Press, 1997)
The New Companion to the Literature of Wales (University of Wales Press, 1998)
Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults (editor and contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2003)
Saint Katherine of Alexandria: Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe (contributor) (Brepols, 2003)
Medieval Virginities (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2003)
St David: Cult, Church and Nation (contributor) (Boydell and Brewer, 2007)
Gwyddoniadur Cymru / The Encyclopaedia of Wales (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2007)