Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction The Scottish Legendary and narrative art; Introducing the Scottish Legendary; Saints lives as narratives; Transcending genre: the Scottish Legendary and romance; Notes; 1 Towards a narrative poetics of medieval saints' lives; Narrative theory and the Scottish Legendary: a pragmatic approach; Narrative 'communication' and the open text: performing saints' legends; Notes.
2 Teacher and poet: the narrator in the Scottish LegendaryThe Prologue of the Scottish Legendary; Metanarrative and narratorial roles; Digressions and prayers; Narrating the Scottish Legendary: conclusions; Notes; 3 Words and deeds: character depiction and direct discourse; Disruptive speech: female martyrs and pagan rulers; Holy and hollow? Narrating the saint; Mary of Egypt: how to talk without conversing; Theodora: the saint, the witch, and the adulterer; Andrew: a conversation postponed; Conclusions: gender, miracles, and the spoken word; Notes.
4 Putting the saint in perspective: ideology and hagiographic narrationParameters of perspective: narrating the Other; Foregrounding and the miraculous; Conclusions: authorising the hagiographic narratives; Notes; 5 Saintly interiority: narrating conscience and consciousness; The representation of consciousness; Limiting the point of view; Conclusions; Notes; 6 The past, a foreign country: time, space, and the Scottishness of the Scottish Legendary; Salvation history and the suspension of time; Sanctifying space(s); How Scottish is the Scottish Legendary?; Notes.
Conclusion A poetics of hagiographic narrationNotes; Appendix: the Scottish Legendary: authorship, dialect, and arrangement; Scribal practice; Dialect and dating; Dedications to the saints; Arrangement of the legends; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Online databases; Index.
2 Teacher and poet: the narrator in the Scottish LegendaryThe Prologue of the Scottish Legendary; Metanarrative and narratorial roles; Digressions and prayers; Narrating the Scottish Legendary: conclusions; Notes; 3 Words and deeds: character depiction and direct discourse; Disruptive speech: female martyrs and pagan rulers; Holy and hollow? Narrating the saint; Mary of Egypt: how to talk without conversing; Theodora: the saint, the witch, and the adulterer; Andrew: a conversation postponed; Conclusions: gender, miracles, and the spoken word; Notes.
4 Putting the saint in perspective: ideology and hagiographic narrationParameters of perspective: narrating the Other; Foregrounding and the miraculous; Conclusions: authorising the hagiographic narratives; Notes; 5 Saintly interiority: narrating conscience and consciousness; The representation of consciousness; Limiting the point of view; Conclusions; Notes; 6 The past, a foreign country: time, space, and the Scottishness of the Scottish Legendary; Salvation history and the suspension of time; Sanctifying space(s); How Scottish is the Scottish Legendary?; Notes.
Conclusion A poetics of hagiographic narrationNotes; Appendix: the Scottish Legendary: authorship, dialect, and arrangement; Scribal practice; Dialect and dating; Dedications to the saints; Arrangement of the legends; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Online databases; Index.