Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic By Amy Jeffs

Saints of speed Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author Saints legends suffused medieval European culture Their heroes suffering and wonder working shaped landscapes rituals and folk beliefs Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws In Saints Amy Jeffs retells legends born of the medieval cult of saints She draws on official lives vernacular romances artworks and obscene poetry all spanning from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries The legends heroes originate from as far east as Turkey and North Africa and as far west as Britain and Ireland Saints includes such enduring super saints as Brigid George Patrick and Michael as well as some whose legends are less well known Scoith n Euphrosyne and Ia or else couched in prejudice William of Norwich The commentaries following the stories offer a history of each saint and together trace the rise and fall of the medieval cult of saints from the first martyrs to the Protestant Reformation And all this maps onto the passing year from St Mungo in January to St Thomas Becket in December Jeffs guides her readers from images high on the walls of medieval churches through surviving treasures of the elite and into the shifting silt of the Thames where lie the lowly image bearing badges once treasured by pilgrims She opens manuscripts that hold wondrous stories of the lives and deaths of wayfaring monks oak felling missionaries and mighty martyrs With tales of demons and dragons with the stubborn skull of a giant with stories of sleepers in a concealed Greek cave Saints will enchant and transport readers to other worlds Saints A New Legendary of Heroes Humans and MagicAmy Jeffs is an art historian specialising in the Middle Ages In 2019 she gained a PhD in Art History from Corpus Christi College Cambridge having studied for earlier degrees at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Cambridge She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Saints game today During her PhD Amy co convened a project researching medieval badges and pilgrim souvenirs at the British Museum She then worked in the British Librarys department of Ancient Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. Saints nonfiction vs Amy is a regular contributor to Country Life Magazine Amy Jeffs is an art historian specialising in the Middle Ages In 2019 she gained a PhD in Art History from Corpus Christi College Cambridge having studied for earlier degrees at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Cambridge She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Saints and sinners During her PhD Amy co convened a project researching medieval badges and pilgrim souvenirs at the British Museum She then worked in the British Library s department of Ancient Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts,

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Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic

Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic By Amy Jeffs
1529416639
9781529416633
English
400
Kindle Edition
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