IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 528: Saints in an Age of War: Anglo-Scottish Relations and the Cult of Saints, c. 1350-c. 1450
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Historical Cultural Sciences Research Unit, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz |
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| Organiser: | Jörg Rogge, Historisches Seminar, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jörg Rogge, Historisches Seminar, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Paper 528-a | The Impact of Bridget of Sweden on Walter Bower's Scotichronicon (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Paper 528-b | The Cult of St Ninian in 15th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Paper 528-c | St Ninian in the Scottish Legendary (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The wars between the realms of England and Scotland in the later middle Ages are not fully explained by referring to the battles or the raids in the border regions. The war was also fought through other means. Both sides used, for example, historical and juridical arguments to legitimize their claims for independence (Scots) or suzerainty (English) respectively. The session intends to investigate another possibility that was used to define their position, that is to say the recourse to hagiography. The lives and supposed interventions of saints could become - or was made - an argument in the strife between the two realms. Therefore the papers will examine how English and Scottish writers used examples of saintly approval or disapproval in order to justify political claims. |