Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages

In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie explores devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages. He provides fresh insight into the role played by these saints in the legal and historical arguments for Scottish independence, and the process by which first Andrew, and later Ninian, were embraced as patron saints of the Scots. Kind Neighbours also explains the appeal of the most popular Scottish saints of the period and explores the relationship between regional shrines and the Scottish monarchy.
Rejecting traditional interpretations based around church-led patriotism or crown patronage, Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explain how religious, political and environmental changes in the later middle ages shaped devotion to the saints in Scotland.

Tom Turpie gained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2011. He is the author of several articles on the cult of the saints in medieval Scotland.

"[A] nuanced and precise analysis of the deeply personal and localised nature of devotion to saints across the Middle Ages."
Claire Harrill, Journal of the Northern Reniassance, Reviews Published in 2016, URL: http://www.northernrenaissance.org/tom-turpiekind-neighbours-scottish-saints-and-society-in-the-later-middle-ages-brill-2015/, Date accessed: 22 December, 2016.