Abstract
“Mishandled Vessels” explores the gesture of insult in medieval Wales by means of a detailed examination of the intersection of literature, law and art. The article takes as its starting point the illustration of “sarhaed” or insult, in the mid-thirteenth-centry Welsh legal codex NLW Latin ms Peniarth 28. It then considers the attitudes which lie behind the gesture, namely those which anthropologists have identified as peculiar to cultures which feud, and charts them through select literary and legal texts. This investigation helps shed light on how the medieval Welsh dealt with the perceived shortage of honour in their culture.
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