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SURVEY OF DEDICATIONS TO SAINTS IN MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND

Conference Announcement

‘The Cult of Saints in medieval Scotland’
to be held in the
National Museums of Scotland
on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 September 2007

Programme

Saturday 8 September
10.00-10.30am   Registration and coffee
10.30am-12.30pm  Session 1
  Professor David Dumville
‘ Cathroe, Scottus, peregrinus pro amore Dei, and questions of identity at home and in the diaspora’
  Dr Barbara Crawford
‘ The cult of St Clement in Scotland’
  Simon Innes
‘Is eagal liom lá na hagra’: devotion to the Virgin in the Later Medieval Gàidhealtachd as evidenced by Classical Poetry
12.30-2.15pm     Lunch
2.15-3.30pm  Session 2
  Dr Helen Brown
‘English Saints in Southern Scotland in the late middle ages’
  Dr David Ditchbur
‘The cult of international saints in Scotland: a late medieval overview’
3.30-4.00pm  Tea
4.00-5.00pm      Plenary Lecture
  Professor Julia Smith
‘Saints and their Cults, 600-1100’
5.00-7.00pm Database/website launch and Reception
   

 

Sunday 9 September
10.00-11.15am  Session 3
  Dr Matthew Hammond 
‘Religious Houses and the veneration of saints in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland’
  Dr Eila Williamson
‘The usages of ‘dating by feast day’ in medieval Scotland’
11.15-11.45am  Coffee
11.45am-1.00pm Session 4
  Dr Steve Boardman
‘David, duke of Rothesay.  Political martyrdom and popular sanctity in fifteenth-century Scotland’
  Nicki Scott
‘Saints cults and royal piety in the reign of James I (1406-1437)’
1.00-2.00pm  Lunch
2.00-3.15pm Session 5
  Rachel Butter
‘The Cult of Fintan Munnu’
  Professor Thomas Clancy
‘The Big Man, the Footsteps, and the Fissile Saint’: Paradigms and Problems in Studies of Insular Saints’ Cults’
3.15-3.30pm 

Close of conference

 

The Programme is available to download here (word doc) (rtf) (pdf)

To complete the registration form for the conference please go to the Registration page.