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Monograph Review
Rebecca Pinner’s 2010 dissertation entitled “St: Edmund, King and Martyr: Constructing his Cult in Medieval East Anglia” is a helpful, though gentle, pushback against the predominant scholarship surrounding Edmund and medieval saints’ cults in general. Pinner is familiar with a vast array of scholarship on saints but finds particular inspiration from Virginia Blanton’s “horizontal” work…
4.0 Art Historical Saint: St. Edmund
My saint is St. Edmund, also called Edmund the Martyr or Edmund of East Anglia. Although little contemporary work survives in the modern day on Edmund due to Viking raids and later the Dissolution of the monasteries, some work still survives due to his importance. He was a prevalent saint, considered to be the patron…
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