The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson

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

IntroductionThe Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint: paradigms and problems in studies of insular saints' cults - Thomas O ClancySt Munnu in Ireland and Scotland: an exploration of his cult - Rachel ButterThe struggle for sanctity: St Waltheof of Melrose, Cistercian in-house cults and canonisation procedure at the turn of the thirteenth century - Helen BirkettRoyal and aristocratic attitudes to saints in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland - Matthew HammondA saintly sinner? The 'martyrdom' of David, duke of Rothesay - Steven BoardmanWo/men only? Marian devotion in medieval Perth - Mark A. HallIs eagal liom lá na hagra: Devotion to the Virgin in the later medieval Gàidhealtachd - Sim InnesScottish Saints' Legends in the Aberdeen Breviary - Alan MacQuarrieMothers and their sons: Mary and Jesus in Scotland, 1450-1560 - Audrey-Beth FitchThe 'McRoberts Thesis' and patterns of sanctity in late medieval Scotland - David Ditchburn