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Tringham, NJ (2020) St Edith of Polesworth and her cult. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN 0022-0469
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Abstract
Venerated at Polesworth (Warws.) in the late Anglo-Saxon period, the identity of St Edith remains uncertain, with medieval chroniclers suggesting various candidates, but she is likely to have been a seventh-century Mercian princess, perhaps also connected with a church near Louth (Lincs.). Buried at Polesworth, where miracles were still recorded in the thirteenth century, and perhaps with relics in the collegiate church at nearby Tamworth, her cult was very localised with only a few outliers elsewhere in the midlands, probably linked to the Marmion family, lords of Tamworth castle and the founders in the mid twelfth century of female religious house at Polesworth.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2019 Cambridge University Press. This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM), deposited in accordance with the self-archiving policy of the publisher. The final published version (version of record) will be available online via Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046919000678 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | history, religion |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Humanities |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2019 16:32 |
Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2020 13:02 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/5974 |