St Edmund, King and Martyr - Changing Images of a Medieval Saint

The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show.

List of contents

Introduction - Anthony Bale
King, Martyr and Virgin: Imitatio Christi in Ælfric's Life of St Edmund - Carl Phelpstead
Chronology, Genealogy and Conversion: the Afterlife of St Edmund in the North - Alison Finlay
Geoffrey of Wells' Liber de infantia sancti Edmundi and the 'Anarchy' of King Stephen's Reign - Paul 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
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Summary

The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Bale
• Assisted by: Anthony Bale (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9781903153260
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-26-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: York Medieval Press; York Medieval Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; England, Geschichte der Religion, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Gruppen