The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in medieval Scotland
Of all the Celtic countries, Scotland has lacked the kind of scholarly attention that has been lavished fruitfully on Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany. And yet of all of them, Scotland offers the widest range of interfaces with broader work on the cult of saints. The papers presented here cover...
| Subtitles: | The Cult of Saints & the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Suffolk
Boydell & Brewer
2010.
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Scotland
/ Marian devotion
/ Saints
/ History 1000-1560
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| Further subjects: | B
Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint
Devotion to (Scotland)
History To 1500
B Mary ; Blessed Virgin, Saint ; Devotion to ; Scotland ; History ; To 1500 B Christian saints Cult Scotland History, To 1500 B Christian saints Cult (Scotland) History To 1500 B Christian saints Cult Scotland History To 1500 B Christian saints ; Cult ; Scotland ; History ; To 1500 B Mary B Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint Cult Scotland History To 1500 |
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| Summary: | Of all the Celtic countries, Scotland has lacked the kind of scholarly attention that has been lavished fruitfully on Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany. And yet of all of them, Scotland offers the widest range of interfaces with broader work on the cult of saints. The papers presented here cover this territory very effectively.... [the book] brings together excellent studies that successfully explore the wide ramifications of the topic. Anyone with an interest in saints' cults will want this book. DAUVIT BROUN, Professor of Scottish History, University of Glasgow. This volume examines the phenomena of the cult of saints and Marian devotion as they were manifested in Scotland, ranging from the early medieval period to the sixteenth century. It combines general surveys of the development of the study of saints in the early and later middle ages with more focused articles on particular subjects, including St Waltheof of Melrose, the obscure early medieval origins of the cult of St Munnu, the short-lived martyr cult of David, duke of Rothsay, and the Scottish saints included in the greatest liturgical compendium produced in late medieval Scotland, the Aberdeen breviary. The way in which Marian devotion permeated late medieval Scottish society is discussed in terms of the church dedications of the twelfth and thirteenth-century aristocracy, the ecclesiastical landscape of Perth, the depiction of Mary in Gaelic poetry, and the pervasive influence of the familial bond between holy mother and son in representations of the Scottish royal family. Dr Steve Boardman is Reader in History, University of Edinburgh; Eila Williamson gained her PhD from the University of Glasgow. Contributors: Helen Birkett, Steve Boardman, Rachel Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, David Ditchburn, Audrey-Beth Fitch, Mark A. Hall, Matthew H. Hammond, Sim Innes, Alan Macquarrie The Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults / Thomas Owen Cluny -- St. Munnu in Ireland and Scotland: an exploration of his cult / Rachel Butter -- The struggle for sanctity: St Waltheof of Melrose, Cisterican 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 H. Hammond -- A saintly sinner? The 'martyrdom' of David, duke of Rothesay / Steve 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 R. 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 |
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| ISBN: | 1846158540 |