St Edmund, King and Martyr (eBook, PDF)

Changing Images of a Medieval Saint
Redaktion: Bale, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846157622
• Artikelnr.: 56168917

Inhaltsangabe

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 Select Bibliography