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