Our Friend in the North
The Origins, Evolution and Appeal of the Cult of St Duthac of Tain in the Later Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10491768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Turpie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-28 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scottish historical review/ The Scottish historical review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-9241 • E-ISSN: 1750-0222 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/shr.2014.0197 |
| OpenAlex | W2150155095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
St Duthac of Tain was one of the most popular Scottish saints of the later middle ages. From the late fourteenth century until the reformation devotion to Duthac outstripped that of Andrew, Columba, Margaret and Mungo, and Duthac's shrine in Easter Ross became a regular haunt of James IV (1488–1513) and James V (1513–42). Hitherto historians have tacitly accepted the view of David McRoberts that Duthac was one of several local saints whose emergence and popularity in the fifteenth century was part of a wider self-consciously nationalist trend in Scottish religious practice. This study looks beyond the paradigm of nationalism to trace and explain the popularity of St Duthac from the shadowy origins of the cult to its heyday in the early sixteenth century
Ancient history · Appeal · Cult · Fifteenth · Middle Ages · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |