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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Young, Francis (1981-.... ; historien). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Edmund [Texte imprimé] : in search of England's lost king / Francis Young
Publication : London (GB) : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-204 p. [8] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 159-195. IndexWhat buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, as Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body - placed in an `iron chest' but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries - of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England's first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, the author points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created EnglandAlso available in electronic format.
Sujet(s) : Edmond (084.-0869 ; saint) Anglo-Saxons (peuple germanique) -- Rois et souverains -- IXe siècle Rois et souverains -- Grande-Bretagne -- IXe siècle Grande-Bretagne -- Jusqu'à 1066
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey : 942.01 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Angleterre - Des origines à 1066
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1788311795. - ISBN 9781788311793. - ISBN 9781786723611 (erroné). - ISBN 1786723611 (erroné). - ISBN 9781786723610 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45720481q
Notice n° : FRBNF45720481 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Angelcynn: Edmund's people ; Death of a King ; Invincible martyr: the early cult of Edmund, 869-1066 ; "Patron of all England": Edmund in the medieval world, 1066-1539 ; A lost King: Edmund since the reformation ; Conclusion: finding Edmund?