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St David of Wales : cult, church and nation / edited by J. Wyn Evans, Jonathan M. Wooding.
Van Pelt Library BX4700.D3 S73 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Celtic history ; 24.
- Studies in Celtic history ; 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- David, Saint, 6th century.
- David.
- David, Saint, 6th century--Cult--Wales.
- Christian saints--Wales--Biography.
- Christian saints.
- Wales.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2007.
- Summary:
- All aspects of the cult of St David, patron saint of Wales, are examined in this wide-ranging volume.
- Contents:
- 1 The figure of David / Jonathan M. Wooding 1
- 2 Transition and survival: St David and St Davids Cathedral / J. Wyn Evans 20
- St Davids: From Early Community to Diocese
- 3 The geography of the cult of St David: a study of dedication patterns in the medieval diocese / Heather James 41
- 4 St Davids and a new link with the Hiberno-Norse world / Mark Redknap 84
- The Life of St David
- 5 Which text is Rhygyfarch's Life of St David? / Richard Sharpe 90
- 6 Rhygyfarch's Life of St David / Richard Sharpe, John Reuben Davies 107
- 7 Some observations on the 'Nero', 'Digby', and 'Vespasian' recensions of Vita S. David / John Reuben Davies 156
- The Cult of St David
- 8 Armes Prydain Fawr and St David / G.R. Isaac 161
- 9 The cult of St Non: rape, sanctity and motherhood in Welsh and Breton hagiography / Jane Cartwright 182
- 10 The cults of SS. Nonne and Divi in Brittany / Bernard Tanguy 207
- 11 St David in the liturgy: a review of sources / Daniel Huws 220
- 12 The office of St David in Paris, Bibliotheque nationale, MS lat. 17294 / Owain Tudor Edwards 233
- 13 A triad of texts about Saint David / David Howlett 253
- The Relics of St David
- 14 The relics of St David: the historical evidence / Fred Cowley 274
- 15 AMS radiocarbon dating of bones from St Davids Cathedral / T.F.G. Higham, C. Bronk Ramsey, Lined.M. Nokes 282
- 16 Shrine and counter-shrine in 1920s and 1930s Dewisland? / John Morgan-Guy 286
- The Diocese of St Davids
- 17 The archbishopric St Davids and the bishops of Clas Cynidr / John Reuben Davies 296
- 18 The dynasty of Deheubarth and the church of St Davids / Huw Pryce 305
- 19 The statutes of St Davids Cathedral 1224-1259 / Julia Barrow 317
- 20 The crisis of the sixteenth century / Glanmor Williams 330
- 21 The diocese of St David's in the early nineteenth century: a reappraisal / W.N. Yates 339.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781843833222
- 1843833220
- OCLC:
- 165410801
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