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

• 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 Tüskés 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