Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults
- 2 St Munnu in Ireland and Scotland: an exploration of his cult
- 3 The struggle for sanctity: St Waltheof of Melrose, Cistercian in-house cults and canonisation procedure at the turn of the thirteenth century
- 4 Royal and aristocratic attitudes to saints and the Virgin Mary in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland
- 5 A saintly sinner? The ‘martyrdom’ of David, duke of Rothesay
- 6 Wo/men only? Marian devotion in medieval Perth
- 7 Is eagal liom lá na hagra: devotion to the Virgin in the later medieval Gàidhealtachd
- 8 Scottish saints' legends in the Aberdeen Breviary
- 9 Mothers and their sons: Mary and Jesus in Scotland, 1450–1560
- 10 The ‘McRoberts thesis’ and patterns of sanctity in late medieval Scotland
- Index
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults
- 2 St Munnu in Ireland and Scotland: an exploration of his cult
- 3 The struggle for sanctity: St Waltheof of Melrose, Cistercian in-house cults and canonisation procedure at the turn of the thirteenth century
- 4 Royal and aristocratic attitudes to saints and the Virgin Mary in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland
- 5 A saintly sinner? The ‘martyrdom’ of David, duke of Rothesay
- 6 Wo/men only? Marian devotion in medieval Perth
- 7 Is eagal liom lá na hagra: devotion to the Virgin in the later medieval Gàidhealtachd
- 8 Scottish saints' legends in the Aberdeen Breviary
- 9 Mothers and their sons: Mary and Jesus in Scotland, 1450–1560
- 10 The ‘McRoberts thesis’ and patterns of sanctity in late medieval Scotland
- Index
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010