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The cult of St Edmund in medieval East Anglia /
An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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