St Edith of Polesworth and her Cult
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10087123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nigel Tringham (Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046919000678 |
| OpenAlex | W2966378523 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
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 being 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 a female religious house at Polesworth
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cult · Identity (music · Period (music · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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