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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
Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time
of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The
years between the deaths of King Mael Coluim and Queen Margaret in
1093 and King Alexander III in 1286 witnessed the formation of a
kingdom resembling the Scotland we know today, which was a full
member of the European club ofmonarchies; the period is also marked
by an explosion in the production of documents. This volume
includes a range of new studies casting fresh light on the
institutions and people of the Scottish kingdom, especially in
thethirteenth century. New perspectives are offered on topics as
diverse as the limited reach of Scottish royal administration and
justice, the ties that bound the unfree to their lords, the extent
of a political community in the time of King Alexander II, a view
of Europeanization from the spread of a common material culture,
the role of a major Cistercian monastery in the kingdom and the
broader world, and the idea of the neighbourhood in Scots law.
There are also chapters on the corpus of charters and names and the
innovative technology behind the People of Medieval Scotland
prosopographical database, which made use of over 6000 individual
documents from the period. Matthew Hammond is a Research Associate
at the University of Glasgow. Contributors: John Bradley, Stuart
Campbell, David Carpenter, Matthew Hammond, Emilia Jamroziak,
Cynthia Neville, Michele Pasin, Keith Stringer, Alice Taylor.
A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit
Broun, University of Glasgow. Personal names can provide a rich and
often overlooked window into medieval society, and Scotland's
diversity of languages over the course of the Middle Ages makes it
an ideal case study. This book offers a range of new methodological
approaches to anthroponymy, covering Gaelic, Scandinavian and other
Germanic names, as well as names drawn from the Bible, the saints,
and secular literature. Individual case studies include a
comparison of naming in early medieval Scottish and Irish
chronicles; an authoritative taxonomy of Gaelic names drawn from
twelfth and thirteenth-century charters; a revolutionary new
analysis of the emergence of surnames in Ireland, with implications
for Scottish history; a complete linguistic discussion of the
masculine Germanic names in the 1296 Ragman Roll; a detailed local
case study of saints. names in Argyll which bears on place-names as
well; and an examination of the adoption of Hebrew Old Testament
names in central medieval Scotland. Dr MATTHEW HAMMOND is a
Research Associate at Kings College London. Contributors: Rachel
Butter, Thomas Owen Clancy, John Reuben Davies, Valeria DiClemente,
Nicholas Evans, Matthew Hammond, Roibeard O Maolalaigh, David
Sellar, Tom Turpie.
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. Steve Boardman is
Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of
Edinburgh; Dr Eila Williamson is a Research Associate in English
Language and Linguistics at 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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