An edition and translation of the Middle Welsh Lives of Mary Magdalene and Martha

尽管现代天主教和新教将抹大拉的玛丽、伯大尼的玛丽和圣路加福音中的忏悔者区分开来，但在整个中世纪，西方教会将这些妇女混为一谈，认为她们是一个人（抹大拉的玛丽）。流行的传说讲述了抹大拉的马利亚和她的妹妹马大如何从圣地启航，将基督教带到欧洲/向普罗旺斯地区的艾克斯传福音，并杀死塔拉斯康的龙。这些故事被改编成中世纪的威尔士语，并在14世纪中期的各种手稿中流传下来。该项目提供了威尔士文本的一个版本，并首次提供了英语版本。

SummaryAlthough modern Catholicism and Protestantism distinguish between Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany and the penitent in the Gospel of St Luke, throughout the Middle Ages the western Church conflated these women and considered them to be one person (Mary Magdalene). Popular legends related how Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha set sail from the Holy Land and brought Christianity to Europe / evangelizing Aix-en-Provence and slaying the dragon of Tarascon. The tales were adapted into medieval Welsh and survive in various manuscripts dating from the mid fourteenth century. This project provides an edition of the Welsh texts and makes them available in English for the first time.