Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

List of contents

Introduction
The Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults - Thomas O Clancy
St Munnu in Ireland and Scotland: an exploration of his cult - Rachel Butter
The struggle for sanctity: St Waltheof of Melrose, Cistercian in-house cults and canonisation procedure at the turn of the thirteenth century - Helen Birkett
Royal and aristocratic attitudes to saints in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland - Matthew Hammond
A saintly sinner? The 'martyrdom' of David, duke of Rothesay - Steven Boardman
Wo/men only? Marian devotion in medieval Perth - Mark A. Hall
Is eagal liom lá na hagra: Devotion to the Virgin in the later medieval Gàidhealtachd - Sim Innes
Scottish Saints' Legends in the Aberdeen Breviary - Alan MacQuarrie
Mothers and their sons: Mary and Jesus in Scotland, 1450-1560 - Audrey-Beth Fitch
The 'McRoberts Thesis' and patterns of sanctity in late medieval Scotland - David Ditchburn

Product details

• Authors: Steve Boardman
• Assisted by: Steve Boardman (Editor), Steven Boardman (Editor), Eila Williamson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2010
• EAN: 9781843835622
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-562-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Studies in Celtic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works