Jane Cartwright is Professor in Welsh at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She has published widely on saints' cults and hagiography.

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• IntroductionJane Cartwright1 What's in a Name? Navigating Nomenclature in the Cult of St Ursula and the Eleven Thousand VirginsScott B. Montgomery 2 The Church of St Ursula in Cologne: Inscriptions and Excavations Klaus Militzer 3 St Ursula and the Military Religious OrdersHelen Nicholson 4 From Pinnosa to Saint Ursula - The Manifestation of the Virgins' Cult in Liturgy: High Medieval Offices of the Feast of Cologne's Virgins in Manuscripts from the Rhine RegionKristin Hoefener5 Hildegard (1098-1179) and the Virgin Martyrs of CologneWilliam Flynn6 Ursula in the British History TraditionElizabeth J. Bryan7 Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins: the Middle English Legenda aurea TraditionWilliam Marx8 The Welsh Life of St Ursula and the 11,000 VirginsJane Cartwright9 The Cult of St Ursula in Hungary: Legend, Altars and ReliquariesAnna Tuskes 10 St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins in Scandinavia and Iceland in the Middle AgesMargaret Cormack 11 Radiant Maidens and Butchered Brides: Finding St Ursula in Icelandic LiteratureKatelin Parsons 12 Male Martyrs, Female Models? St Ursula and St Acacius as Leaders and VictimsSamantha Riches Bibliography