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The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in medieval Scotland / edited by Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson.

Contributor(s): Boardman, Stephen I | Williamson, Eila
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Celtic history: 28.Publisher: Suffolk, England ; Rochester, N.Y. : The Boydell Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xiv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781843835622 (alk. paper); 1843835622 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Christian saints -- Cult -- Scotland -- History -- To 1500 | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- Scotland -- History -- To 1500Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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