Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults
Distributed for University of Wales Press
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2. Welsh hagiography and the nationalist impulse
5. The early chronology for St Patrick (c.351-c.428): some new ideas and possibilities
6. Reading Muirchú’s Tara-event within its background as a biblical ‘trial of divinities’
7. Miracles and wonders in the composition of the Lives of early Irish saints
8. The Northern Lectionary: a source for the Codex Salmanticensis?
9. Fasting, flesh and the body in the St Brendan dossier
10. The process and significance of rewriting Breton hagiography
11. Saints behaving badly: sanctity and transgression in Breton popular culture
12. Magpie hagiography in twelfth-century Scotland: the case of Libellus de nativitate Sancti Cuthberti
13. Saints, stones and shrines: the cults of Sts Moluag and Gerardine in Pictland
14. Pre-Reformation saints’ cults in Cornwall – with particular reference to the St Neot windows
“ . . . a fascinating insight into both the spiritual life of Celtic communities and current debates about the role of saints in the Celtic world.” --Gwales.com
“Throughout the writing is lively and highly readable; each of the fifteen studies, as well as the editor’s excellently clear introduction help to make up a fascinating and informative whole.” –Studia Celtica
“ . . . informative and stimulating.” –Orthodox News
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