{"id":16315,"date":"2022-01-18T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=16315"},"modified":"2022-01-19T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:31:37","slug":"saint-paul-2022-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/saint-paul-2022-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Paul (2022 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Saint Paul<\/strong>
\n(Murray State University<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

“Magic, Death and the Feminine in
\nThe Lay of the Mantle”<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Abstract of Paper
\n57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Online, 2022)<\/h3>\n

Session on
\n“The Iconography of Medieval Magic:
\nTexts and Images”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Co-sponsored by
\nthe Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>
\nand the Societas Magica<\/a><\/h4>\n

Organized by Vajra Regan<\/h4>\n

2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program<\/a><\/h4>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/h4>\n

The folk motif of magical garments is a trope which appears in a comical scenario found in the French Lai du Cort Mantel<\/em> or Mantel Mautaill\u00e9<\/em>, in which a slighted fay uses her cloth making skills to take vengeance on Arthur\u2019s court. This story enjoyed wide popularity throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. Seen as a parody of courtly literature, the chastity testing mantle\/cloak betrays all women of the court but one, and by consequent shames all men except one.\u00a0 Seventy-five percent of the versions of the Mantle story mentions the fairy cloth. However, the 16th-century Gaelic Lay of the Mantle<\/em>, and the 15th-century English ballad The Boy and the Mantle,<\/em> in particular stress the element of the fairy spinner\/weaver, who in many mythologies, rules human destinies.<\/p>\n

This paper shows evidence in insular textual sources and iconography to suggest that the \u201cfay who wrought the mantle\u201d is an avatar of the Sovereignty Goddess who pervades Welsh and Irish mythological texts. As seer, she is a harbinger of death.\u00a0 Wielding distaffs and loom rods, she spins and weaves magical cloaks as insignia of power only to be bestowed upon deserving kings\/queens.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Saint Paul (Murray State University) “Magic, Death and the Feminine in The Lay of the Mantle” Abstract of Paper 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online, 2022) Session on “The Iconography of Medieval Magic: Texts and Images” Co-sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence and the Societas Magica Organized by Vajra Regan 2022 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16316,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16315\/revisions\/16316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}