The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia write by Rebecca Pinner. This book was released on 2015. The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.
St Edmund, King and Martyr
St Edmund, King and Martyr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook St Edmund, King and Martyr write by Rebecca Pinner. This book was released on 2010. St Edmund, King and Martyr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
St Edmund, King and Martyr
St Edmund, King and Martyr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook St Edmund, King and Martyr write by Anthony Paul Bale. This book was released on 2009. St Edmund, King and Martyr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") 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 political artefacts. Celebrated throughout England, especially at the abbey of Bury St Edmunds, it also inspired separate cults in France, Iceland and Italy. The essays in this collection offer a range of readings from a variety of disciplines - literature, history, music, art history - and of sources - chronicles, poems, theological material - providing an overview of the multi-faceted nature of St Edmund's cult, from the ninthcentury to the early modern period. They demonstrate the openness and dynamism of a medieval saint's cult, showing how the saint's image could be used in many and changing contexts: Edmund's image was bent to various political andpropagandistic ends, often articulating conflicting messages and ideals, negotiating identity, politics and belief. CONTRIBUTORS: ANTHONY BALE, CARL PHELPSTEAD, ALISON FINLAY, PAUL ANTONY HAYWARD, LISA COLTON, REBECCA PINNER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE
The Cult of Saint George in Medieval England
The Cult of Saint George in Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of Saint George in Medieval England write by Jonathan Good. This book was released on 2009. The Cult of Saint George in Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How St. George became the patron saint of England has always been a subject of speculation. He was not English, nor was his principal shrine there - the usual criteria for national patronage ; yet his status and fame came to eclipse that of all other saints. Edward III's use of the saint in his wars against the French established him as a patron and protector of the king ; unlike other saints George was adopted by the English to signify membership of the "community of the realm". This book traces the origins and growth of the cult of St. George, arguing that, especially after Edward's death, George came to represent a "good" politics (deriving from Edward's prosecution of a war with spoils for everyone) and could be used to rebuke subsequent kings for their poor governance. Most medieval kings came to understand this fact, and venerated St. George in order to prove their worthiness to hold their office. The political dimension of the cult never completely displaced the devotional one, but it was so strong that St. George survived the Reformation as a national symbol - one that continues in importance in the recovery of a specifically English identity.
Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest
Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest write by Tom Licence. This book was released on 2014. Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Responses to the impact of the Norman Conquest examined through the wealth of evidence provided by the important abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds is noteworthy in so many ways: in preserving the cult and memory of the last East Anglian king, in the richness of its archives, and not least in its role as a mediator of medical texts and studies. All these aspects, and more, are amply illustrated in this collection, by specialists in their fields. The balance of the whole work, and the care taken to place the individual topics in context, has resulted in a satisfying whole, which placesAbbot Baldwin and his abbey squarely in the forefront of eleventh-century politics and society. Professor Ann Williams. The abbey of Bury St Edmunds, by 1100, was an international centre of learning, outstanding for its culting of St Edmund, England's patron saint, who was known through France and Italy as a miracle worker principally, but also as a survivor, who had resisted the Vikings and the invading king Swein and gained strength after 1066. Here we journey into the concerns of his community as it negotiated survival in the Anglo-Norman empire, examining, on the one hand, the roles of leading monks, such as the French physician-abbot Baldwin, and, on the other, the part played by ordinary women of the vill. The abbey of Bury provides an exceptionally rich archive, including annals, historical texts, wills, charters, and medical recipes. The chapters in this volume, written by leading experts, present differing perspectives on Bury's responses to conquest; reflecting the interests of the monks, they cover literature, music, medicine, palaeography, and the history of the region in its European context. DrTom Licence is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Debbie Banham, David Bates, Eric Fernie, Sarah Foot, Michael Gullick, Tom Licence, Henry Parkes, Véronique Thouroude, Elizabeth van Houts, Thomas Waldman, Teresa Webber
