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Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203.(Book Review)
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June 22, 2004|
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Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203. By J. A. Everard. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 242. $59.95.)
For almost half a century, Brittany, that peninsula at the extreme northwest of France, was part of the "Angevin Empire" created by Henry Plantagenet, maintained by his famous son, Richard the Lionheart, and then lost by his infamous son, John. This phase in Brittany's history has been neglected and misunderstood in traditional historiography, argues J. A. Everard in this carefully researched and cogently argued monograph, ...
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King Alfred and the cult of St Edmund: Anna Chapman considers what lies behind the cult of an East Anglian king killed by the Vikings in 869.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...account of the saint's early life...information about the East Anglian king seems to have...how the cult of Edmund may have started...evidence for the East Anglian king...mentions East Anglia just three times...single line that Edmund fought against...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Why not St Edmund? LETTERS.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...George is wanted, St Edmund has far more claim to be an English saint and was England's patron before St George. Edmund became King of East Anglia in about 855AD when...East Anglia in 870. St Edmund fought against them...
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Right to talk of saint's appeal
Newspaper article from: Citizen Gloucestershire, The
; ...St George is the patron saint of Moscow and Ethiopia...England, the English had St Edmund as their patron saint. He is the king of East Anglia who was martyred by Danish Vikings in AD 870. His saint's day is November 20...
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It's a big year to celebrate another saint
Newspaper article from: Gloucestershire Echo, The
; ...St George is the patron saint of Moscow and Ethiopia...England, the English had St Edmund as their patron saint. He is the king of East Anglia who was martyred by Danish Vikings in AD 870. His saint's day is November 20...
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The Arts: The miracle in the stable The Thornham Parva Retable is one of the wonders of English medieval art. It is also a wonder it has survived
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...remaining pair of saints presents a greater...figure of the martyr-king Edmund suggests that the...made for a priory in East Anglia. Edmund was the region's greatest saint, and his shrine...far for the likely Edmund/John combination...
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THE MOST PERFECT MAN IN HISTORY?(King Alfred of Wessex)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...reputation of King Alfred the Great...Northumbria, East Anglia and Mercia had...Vikings in the east and north, so...something of a saint in him, but he...recognised royal saints, especially Edmund of the East Angles, killed...
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Pilgrim's progress slows down in Suffolk
Newspaper article from: Evening Times
; ...to worship at the shrine of the martyred Edmund, Saxon boy King of East Anglia, the first patron saint of England. Since then, this Suffolk town...smallest pub, The Nutshell, and the Greene King Brewery Museum - if only to sample the 200...
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Debenhams, you have been warned. We are the knights who say No. Mark us well: divine vengeance will be ours Plans for a shopping development in the centre of an ancient market town have awoken its spiritual guardians. They are not best pleased
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...gatehouse of King's College...feast day of St Edmund, November 20...the avenging saint. Once more...ancient curse of St Edmund will be invoked...Knights of St Edmund. For the first...Saxon king of East Anglia. They enjoyed...
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HOUSE AND HOME: The quest of Mrs Evans
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...the Christian martyr, King Edmund of East Anglia, was murdered by the...century bishop sent into East Anglia to pick up the...great importance. The Edmund cult gripped the Middle...village itself, where the saint's head had been found...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Uhtred is an Anglo-Saxon version of Sharpe.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
; ...gratuitous. It can also be hilarious. King Edmund of East Anglia, desperate to convert the Danes...story of the arrow-invulnerable Saint Sebastian as evidence of God...intrigued invaders challenge the King to prove that God will do the same...
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