The cult of saints and the Virgin Mary in medieval Scotland. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson.
• Other Names: Boardman, Stephen I; Williamson, Eila
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 235.2094110902; Christian saints -- Cult -- Scotland -- History -- To 1500; RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Angelology & Demonology; HISTORY -- Medieval; Christian saints -- Cult; Devotion; Scotland; Electronic books; History; Devotion to -- Scotland -- History -- To 1500
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846158544; 1846158540
• Related ISBNs: 9781843835622; 1843835622
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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