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Celtic
Hagiography and Saints’ Cults
provides a detailed overview of saints’ cults in Wales, Ireland,
Brittany, Scotland and Cornwall. It is a multidisciplinary collection
that brings together recent research by leading scholars in
the field in order to explore sanctity and the cult of saints
in the Celtic-speaking regions. Among the topics discussed are
the early sources for St Patrick, the development of the cult
of St David, stones and shrines in Pictland, miracle stories
and wonder-working in Irish tradition and the Middle Welsh Lives
of Mary Magdalene and Martha. Although primarily concerned with
early and medieval sources, attention is also paid to the continued
importance of the cult of relics in post-Reformation Britain
and the prominence of saintly figures in popular narrative and
folklore in Brittany and Ireland.
Drawing
on an extensive range of sources, from Latin vitae
and vernacular poetry to holy wells and church dedications,
Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults sheds new light on the
veneration of regional saints and highlights the importance
of vernacular hagiography and the cults of universal saints
in the Celtic regions.
Editor:
Jane Cartwright is Lecturer in Welsh at the University
of Wales, Lampeter. She is the author of Y Forwyn Fair,
Santesau a Lleianod (1999) and has published widely on
Celtic hagiography and medieval virginity literature.
Contents
and Contributors
Jane
Cartwright, Introduction (University of Wales, Lampeter)
J. Wyn Evans, St David and St Davids: some
observations on the cult, site and buildings (Dean of St Davids
Cathedral)
Elissa R. Henken, Welsh hagiography and the
nationalist impulse (University of Georgia, U.S.A.)
Nerys Ann Jones and Morfydd E. Owen, Twelfth-century
Welsh hagiography: the Gogynfeirdd poems to saints (University
of Edinburgh and University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Jane Cartwright, The harlot and the hostess:
a preliminary study of the Middle Welsh Lives of Mary Magdalene
and her sister Martha (University of Wales, Lampeter)
John T. Koch, The early chronology for St Patrick
(c.351-c.428): some new ideas and possibilities (Centre for
Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales)
Thomas O’Loughlin, Reading Muirchú’s tara-event
within its background as a biblical ‘trial of divinities’ (University
of Wales, Lampeter)
Dorothy Ann Bray, Miracles and wonders in the
composition of the Lives of early Irish saints (McGill University,
Montreal, Canada)
T. M. Charles-Edwards, The Northern Lectionary:
a source for the Codex Salmanticensis? (Jesus College, Oxford)
Jonathan M. Wooding, Fasting, flesh and the
body in the St Brendan dossier (University of Wales, Lampeter)
Bernard Merdrignac, The process and significance
of rewriting Breton hagiography and its meanings (University
of Rennes II, Brittany)
Mary-Ann Constantine, Saints behaving badly:
sanctity and transgression in Breton popular culture (Centre
for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales)
Thomas Owen Clancy, Magpie hagiography in twelfth-century
Scotland: the case of Libellus de nativitate Sancti Cuthberti
(University of Glasgow)
Penelope Dransart, Saints, stones and shrines:
the cults of Sts Moluag and Gerardine in Pictland (University
of Wales, Lampeter)
Joanna Mattingly, Pre-Reformation saints’ cults
in Cornwall – with particular reference to the St Neot windows
(Fellow of the Royal Institution of Cornwall)
Karen Jankulak, Alba Longa in the Celtic regions?
Swine, saints and Celtic hagiography (University of Wales, Lampeter)
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