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St Edmund, king and martyr : changing images of a medieval saint /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bale, Anthony, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press in association with the Boydell Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.