Apologies for cross-posting
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
(Department of Humanities and Science
UWCN Caerleon Campus
PO Box 179
Newport NP18 3YG
http://www.newport.ac.uk)
'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
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Madeleine
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09/26/00 Subject: St Frideswide
12:09 PM
Does anyone know how widespread Frideswide's cult was in England? She crops
up in a medieval stained glass window in the Vale of Clwyd and I assumed
she was there because one of the rectors had been to Oxford. However, a
colleague from Aberystwyth has now sent me a string of references from the
C15 poet Lewis Glyn Cothi (born in south-west Wales but active pretty much
all over) comparing various female patrons to Frideswide among other
saints. I know of no other references to her cult in Wales. I had assumed
it was fairly localised in England apart from Oxford graduates but now I
wonder if this was really so.
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
(Department of Humanities and Science
UWCN Caerleon Campus
PO Box 179
Newport NP18 3YG
http://www.newport.ac.uk)
'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
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