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Product Identifiers
PublisherGwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
ISBN-100708317499
ISBN-139780708317495
eBay Product ID (ePID)2314687
Product Key Features
Number of Pages339 Pages
Publication NameCeltic Hagiography and Saints' Cults
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChristianity / Saints & Sainthood, History, Cults
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorJane Cartwright
Subject AreaReligion
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length5.5 in
Item Width8.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-447747
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal270/.0922
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Contributors Illustrations Tables Abbreviations Introduction Jane Cartwright 1. St David and St Davids: some observations on the cult, site and buildings J. Wyn Evans 2. Welsh hagiography and the nationalist impulse Elissa R. Henken 3. Twelfth-century Welsh hagiography: the Gogynfeirdd poems to saints Nerys Ann Jones and Morfydd E. Owen 4. The harlot and the hostess: a preliminary study of the Middle Welsh Lives of Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha Jane Cartwright 5. The early chronology for St Patrick (c.351-c.428): some new ideas and possibilities John T. Koch 6. Reading Muirchú's Tara-event within its background as a biblical 'trial of divinities' Thomas O'Loughlin 7. Miracles and wonders in the composition of the Lives of early Irish saints Dorothy Ann Bray 8. The Northern Lectionary: a source for the Codex Salmanticensis ? T. M. Charles-Edwards 9. Fasting, flesh and the body in the St Brendan dossier Jonathan M. Wooding 10. The process and significance of rewriting Breton hagiography Bernard Merdrignac 11. Saints behaving badly: sanctity and transgression in Breton popular culture Mary-Ann Constantine 12. Magpie hagiography in twelfth-century Scotland: the case of Libellus de nativitate Sancti Cuthberti Thomas Owen Clancy 13. Saints, stones and shrines: the cults of Sts Moluag and Gerardine in Pictland Penelope Dransart 14. Pre-Reformation saints' cults in Cornwall - with particular reference to the St Neot windows Joanna Mattingly 15. Alba Longa in the Celtic regions? Swine, saints and Celtic hagiography Karen Jankulak Works Cited Index
SynopsisThis group of revised papers, taken from a conference held at the University of Wales in Lampeter in 2000, reflects the diversity of the different forms of saints' cults and hagiography within the Celtic regions of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Cornwall. Written by leading scholars, these fifteen studies focus on evidence from the mid 4th to early 20th century, evidence which includes saints' Lives, poetry and prose narratives referring to saints, holy wells and shrines, songs, relics, church dedications, archaeology and iconograpphy. Among the saints discussed are St Patrick, St David, St Birgit and St Brendan.
LC Classification NumberBX4662.C45 2003
