Boardman / Williamson The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84615-854-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Celtic History

A new investigation of the saints' cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boardman, Steven

Williamson, Eila

Weitere Mitwirkende

MacQuarrie, Alan

Fitch, Audrey-Beth

Ditchburn, David

Birkett, Helen

Hall, Mark A.

Hammond, Matthew H.

Butter, Rachel

Innes, Sim

Boardman, Steven

Clancy, Thomas O

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Boardman Steven:
Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.MacQuarrie Alan:
Alan Macquarrie is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. He has written extensively on medieval Scotland and in 2012 edited the Legends of Scottish Saints from the Aberdeen Breviary.Ditchburn David:
David Ditchburn is Associate Professor in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin. He has edited several books and published many articles on both religion in, and the society and economy of, medieval Scotland.Boardman Steven:
Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.