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IMC 2006: Sessions

Session 207: Saints' Cults across the Insular World, I

Monday 10 July 2006, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Survey of Dedications to Saints in Pre-Reformation Scotland, University of Edinburgh
Organiser:Stephen Boardman, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Moderator/Chair:Eila Williamson, Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh
Paper 207-aThe Medieval and Early Modern Cult of St Brendan: A Study in Transmission
(Language: English)
Jonathan Wooding, Centre for the Study of Religion in Celtic Societies, University of Wales, Lampeter
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 207-bSt Kentigern in Scotland, Cumbria, and Wales
(Language: English)
John Reuben Davies, Department of Scottish History, University of Edinburgh
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 207-cSt Cuthbert's Miracles and Pilgrims: A Consummate Northern Saint for the 12th Century
(Language: English)
Sally Crumplin, Department of Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life
Abstract

An examination of the establishment and growth of individual saints cults across and beyond supposed political/ethnic/linguistic divides in medieval Britain and Ireland.