Celtic Hagiography and Saints' Cults
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Celtic Hagiography and Saints' Cults

  1. 367 pages
  2. English
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Celtic Hagiography and Saints' Cults

About this book

Celtic Hagiography and Saints Cults is an exploration of sanctity and the cult of saints in the Celtic-speaking regions of Europe. It is a multidisciplinary collection which brings together some of the most recent research on Celtic hagiography and saints' cults by a selection of leading international scholars in the field. In addition to surveying the topic and discussing the most prominent Celtic saints, there are also articles on such subjects as regional saints (Melangell, Moluag, Gerardine), the Celtic lives of Mary Magdalene and Martha, and on connections between the treatment of saints in the different Celtic regions. Celtic Hagiography draws on an extensive range of different sources in order to not only present a representative sample of case studies from all the Celtic regions but also to make the most recent research into Celtic saints' cults available to a wider audience. The volume thus provides the opportunity to investigate similarities, as well as differences, between the different Celtic societies, the development of Christianity in the Celtic regions and the production of hagiographies and religious literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contributors
  7. Illustrations
  8. Tables
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. St David and St Davids: some observations on the cult, site and buildings
  12. 2. Welsh hagiography and the nationalist impulse
  13. 3. Twelfth-century Welsh hagiography: the Gogynfeirdd poems to saints
  14. 4. The harlot and the hostess: a preliminary study of the Middle Welsh Lives of Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha
  15. 5. The early chronology for St Patrick (c.351– c. 428): some new ideas and possibilities
  16. 6 . Reading Muirchú’s Tara-event within its background as a biblical ‘trial of divinities’
  17. 7. M iracles and wonders in the composition of the Lives of the early Irish saints
  18. 8. The Northern Lectionary: a source for the Codex Salmanticensis?
  19. 9. Fasting, flesh and the body in the St Brendan dossier
  20. 10. The process and significance of rewriting Breton hagiography
  21. 11. Saints behaving badly: sanctity and transgression in Breton popular culture
  22. 12. Magpie hagiography in twelfth-century Scotland: the case of Libellus de nativitate Sancti Cuthberti
  23. 13. Saints, stones and shrines: the cults of Sts Moluag and Gerardine in Pictland
  24. 14. Pre-Reformation saints’ cults in Cornwall – with particular reference to the St Neot windows
  25. 15. Alba Longa in the Celtic regions? Swine, saints and Celtic hagiography
  26. Works Cited
  27. Index