UID:
almafu_9960119991802883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 198 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-98840-9
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9786612988400
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1-84615-762-5
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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.〈BR〉 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 ninth century 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 and propagandistic ends, often articulating conflicting messages and ideals, negotiating identity, politics and belief.〈BR〉〈BR〉 CONTRIBUTORS: ANTHONY BALE, CARL PHELPSTEAD, ALISON FINLAY, PAUL ANTONY HAYWARD, LISA COLTON, REBECCA PINNER, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: St Edmund's Medieval Lives; 1. King, Martyr and Virgin: Imitatio Christi in Ælfric's Life of St Edmund; 2. Chronology, Genealogy and Conversion: The Afterlife of St Edmund in the North; 3. Geoffrey of Wells's Liber de infantia sancti Edmundi and the 'Anarchy' of King Stephen's Reign; 4. Music and Identity in Medieval Bury St Edmunds; 5. Medieval Images of St Edmund in Norfolk Churches; 6. John Lydgate's Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund: Politics, Hagiography and Literature
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7. St Edmund in Fifteenth-Century London: The Lydgatian Miracles of St Edmund8. The Later Lives of St Edmund: John Lydgate to John Stow; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-903153-26-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846157622
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