The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in medieval Scotland
By: edited by Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson
Series: Studies in Celtic history -- 28
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Woodbridge; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781843835622
Subjects: Cult; Christian saints; Devotion to; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults / Thomas Owen Cluny; title: St. Munnu in Ireland and Scotland: an exploration of his cult / Rachel Butter; title: The struggle for sanctity: St Waltheof of Melrose, Cisterican in-house cults and canonisation procedure at the turn of the thirteenth century / Helen Birkett; title: Royal and aristocratic attitudes to saints in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland / Matthew H. Hammond; title: A saintly sinner? The 'martyrdom' of David, duke of Rothesay / Steve Boardman; title: Wo/men only? Marian devotion in medieval Perth / Mark A. Hall; title: Is eagal liom lá na hagra: Devotion to the Virgin in the later medieval Gàidhealtachd / Sim R. Innes; title: Scottish saints' legends in the Aberdeen Breviary / Alan Macquarrie; title: Mothers and their sons: Mary and Jesus in Scotland, 1450-1560 / Audrey-Beth Fitch; title: The 'McRoberts Thesis' and patterns of sanctity in late medieval Scotland / David Ditchburn.