Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King

ISBN-13: 9781788311793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Francis Young

Opis

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines?

Recenzje

Young's meticulous investigations provide a thorough, readable study of the different interpretations of Edmund's life, death, and posthumous cult interpreted through the existing textual, archaeological, and artistic source materials . [A] well-written and thoroughly researched book which provides a rare, long-view study of the cult of an important saint. Early Medieval Europe

O autorze

Francis Young is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and achieved his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767 (2015) and The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds: History, Legacy and Discovery (2016), amongst others.