Book of Donmon Teith

How St. George became the patron saint of England has always been a subject of speculation. He was not English, nor was his principal shrine there - the usual c

A survey of the cult of St George in the middle ages, investigating its beginning and growth, and its manipulation for political and other ends.

An investigaton of the growth and influence of the cult of St Edmund, and how it manifested itself in medieval material culture.

The image of St. George—atop his horse, lance plunged halfway into a dragon’s body—is so familiar to us that we take for granted what a long history it ha

This volume is conceived as a complement to another Middle English Texts series text, Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints. This selection is i