| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : St. Edmund's medieval lives / Anthony Bale -- King, martyr, and virgin : Imitatio Christi in Aelfric's Life of St. Edmund / Carl Phelpstead -- Chronology, genealogy, and conversion : the afterlife of St. Edmund in the north / Alison Finlay -- Geoffrey of Wells's Liber de infantia sancti Edmundi and the "anarchy" of King Stephen's reign / Paul Antony Hayward -- Music and identity in medieval Bury St. Edmunds / Lisa Colton -- Medieval images of St. Edmund in Norfolk churches / Rebecca Pinner -- John Lydgate's Lives of Ss. Edmund and Fremund : politics, hagiography, and literature / A.S.G. Edwards -- St. Edmund in fifteenth-century London : the Lydgatian Miracles of St. Edmund / Anthony Bale -- The later lives of St. Edmund : John Lydgate to John Stow / Alexandra Gillespie |
| Summary |
St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes [or V̀ikings'] in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was favoured and patronised by several English kings and spawned a rich array of visual, literary, musical and pol |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870.
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Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870 fast |
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Edmund (East Anglia, König) swd |
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Christian saints -- Cult -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Christian saints in literature.
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Christian saints in art.
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Christian saints -- Cult
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Christian saints in art
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Christian saints in literature
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Heiligenverehrung
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
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England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bale, Anthony, 1975-
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| ISBN |
9781846157622 |
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1846157625 |
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