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Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages

By Tom Turpie

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004298223, 9789004298224
ISSN
1569-1462
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1965988 bytes)
Series
Northern World 70
Pages
xii+195\209
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-02-17 14:31:38
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Description

In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie explores devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages. He provides fresh insight into the role played by these saints in the legal and historical arguments for Scottish independence, and the process by which first Andrew, and later Ninian, were embraced as patron saints of the Scots. Kind Neighbours also explains the appeal of the most popular Scottish saints of the period and explores the relationship between regional shrines and the Scottish monarchy. Rejecting traditional interpretations based around church-led patriotism or crown patronage, Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explain how religious, political and environmental changes in the later middle ages shaped devotion to the saints in Scotland.

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