John Reuben Davies & Eila Williamson 
Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World [PDF ebook] 

Saints’ cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies.


The way in which saints’ cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject of this book. In a series of case studies, the contributions highlight the factors that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. The collection has a particular emphasis on northern Britain, andthe role of devotional interests in connecting or shaping a number of polities and cultural identities (Pictish, Scottish, Northumbrian, Irish, Welsh and English) in a world of fluid political and territorial boundaries. Althoughthe bulk of the studies are concerned with the significance of cults in the insular context, many of the articles also touch on the development of pan-European devotions (such as the cults of St Brendan, The Three Kings or St George).


Contributors: James E. Fraser, Thomas Owen Clancy, Fiona Edmonds, John Reuben Davies, Karen Jankulak, Sally Crumplin, Joanna Huntington, Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, Jonathan Wooding

Tabela de Conteúdo

Editors’ Preface

Rochester, Hexham and Cennrígmonaid: the movements of St Andrew in Britain 604-747 – James E. Fraser

The cults of Saints Patrick and Palladius in early medieval Scotland – Thomas O Clancy

Personal names and the cult of Patrick in eleventh-century Strathclyde and Northumbria – Fiona Edmonds

Bishop Kentigern among the Britons – John Reuben Davies

Adjacent saints’ dedications and early Celtic History – Karen Jankulak

Cuthbert the cross-border saint in the twelfth century – Sally Crumplin

David of Scotland:
Virum tam necessarium mundo – Joanna Huntington

The cult of Saint George in Scotland – Steven Boardman

The cult of the Three Kings of Cologne in Scotland – Eila Williamson

The medieval and early modern cult of St Brendan – Jonathan M Wooding

Sobre o autor

Steve Boardman is Professor in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written monographs on the Early Stewart kings and the history of the Clan Campbell, edited several books, and published articles on various aspects of the political and cultural life of late medieval Scotland.