Saints - Amy Jeffs SIGNED EDITION
Released 12th September 2024
Numerous saints were held to have lived, breathed and performed miracles across Britain, from only decades after C hrist's death, up to the eve of the Reformation, with all of its consequent destruction.
In medieval narratives these saints are given nature's blessing: a salmon finds C adog's handbook, the Thames parts for Alban, geese fill the sky to converse with Werbaugh. Moreover they fit the medieval view of British history at large. St C adog and King Arthur are contemporaries; St Mungo meets Merlin in the woods; St Alban is implicated in the Roman persecution of C hristians. And while there was no single history accepted across its islands and diverse populations, these stories do enable us to reconstruct a long, obsolete view on Britain's deepest past.
Through passages of narrative, deeply researched explanation and beautifully illustrated by the author with thirty paper-cutouts, Saints retells stories that enjoyed centuries of popular appeal among medieval C hristians but were suppressed when their shrines were destroyed. These stories embraced the darkness of their heroes: sinister saints who sacrificed their followers and women who communed with geese, saints whose decapitated heads spoke to wolves.
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781529416619
Release Date: 12th September 2024
Released 12th September 2024
Numerous saints were held to have lived, breathed and performed miracles across Britain, from only decades after C hrist's death, up to the eve of the Reformation, with all of its consequent destruction.
In medieval narratives these saints are given nature's blessing: a salmon finds C adog's handbook, the Thames parts for Alban, geese fill the sky to converse with Werbaugh. Moreover they fit the medieval view of British history at large. St C adog and King Arthur are contemporaries; St Mungo meets Merlin in the woods; St Alban is implicated in the Roman persecution of C hristians. And while there was no single history accepted across its islands and diverse populations, these stories do enable us to reconstruct a long, obsolete view on Britain's deepest past.
Through passages of narrative, deeply researched explanation and beautifully illustrated by the author with thirty paper-cutouts, Saints retells stories that enjoyed centuries of popular appeal among medieval C hristians but were suppressed when their shrines were destroyed. These stories embraced the darkness of their heroes: sinister saints who sacrificed their followers and women who communed with geese, saints whose decapitated heads spoke to wolves.
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781529416619
Release Date: 12th September 2024
Released 12th September 2024
Numerous saints were held to have lived, breathed and performed miracles across Britain, from only decades after C hrist's death, up to the eve of the Reformation, with all of its consequent destruction.
In medieval narratives these saints are given nature's blessing: a salmon finds C adog's handbook, the Thames parts for Alban, geese fill the sky to converse with Werbaugh. Moreover they fit the medieval view of British history at large. St C adog and King Arthur are contemporaries; St Mungo meets Merlin in the woods; St Alban is implicated in the Roman persecution of C hristians. And while there was no single history accepted across its islands and diverse populations, these stories do enable us to reconstruct a long, obsolete view on Britain's deepest past.
Through passages of narrative, deeply researched explanation and beautifully illustrated by the author with thirty paper-cutouts, Saints retells stories that enjoyed centuries of popular appeal among medieval C hristians but were suppressed when their shrines were destroyed. These stories embraced the darkness of their heroes: sinister saints who sacrificed their followers and women who communed with geese, saints whose decapitated heads spoke to wolves.
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781529416619
Release Date: 12th September 2024
