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

Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9789004298682
ISBN-13 : 9004298681
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Book Synopsis Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages by : Tom Turpie

Download or read book Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Tom Turpie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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