| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Frontcover; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Texts and contexts: the legend of St Edmund; 1 The emergence of the hagiographic tradition:Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Eadmundi; 2 De Miraculis Sancti Eadmundi: Herman, Osbertand Samson; 3 Vita et miracula; 4 The elaboration of the hagiographic tradition; 5 The final flourish of the textual cult: John Lydgate, The Lives of Sts Edmund and Fremund; Part II Relics, shrines and pilgrimage: encountering St Edmund at Bury; 6 Sacred immanence, the incorrupted body andthe shrine of St Edmund |
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7 The devotional and iconographical contextof the shrinePart III Beyond Bury: dissemination and appropriation; 8 Writing St Edmund into the East Anglianlandscape; 9 Miracles beyond Bury; 10 Images of St Edmund; 11 Texts beyond Bury: legendary collections; Conclusion: 'Martir, mayde and kynge', and more; Appendix 1 Synoptic account of the legend of St Edmund; Appendix 2 Chronology of significant events and texts associatedwith the cult of St Edmund; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 21, 2015) |
| Subject |
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870.
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| SUBJECT |
Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870 fast |
| Subject |
Christian saints -- Cult -- England -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Christian saints -- Cult
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782045335 |
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1782045333 |
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1783270357 |
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9781783270354 |
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