The Life and After-Life of St John of Beverley
The Evolution of the Cult of an Anglo-Saxon Saint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9798095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Deighton (University of Hull, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 494 |
| Pages | 1445-1447 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cel292 |
| OpenAlex | W2004169084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
IT comes as a surprise to realise that Susan Wilson is correct in her assertion that this admirable book is ‘the first ever study of St John of Beverley’ (p. 1). While St John of Beverley may be largely forgotten today by all except a few historians and some of the residents of an insignificant market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the bishop of Hexham and then York who ordained Bede was, as Wilson reminds us, for seven centuries a figure of some stature, both economic and political. It is to him that the town of Beverley owed its position in 1377 as the tenth largest provincial centre in England; kings of England looked partly to him to legitimate their claims of sovereignty over Scotland; the oil oozing from the saint's tomb in 1399 was interpreted as divine approval of Henry IV's usurpation of the throne of Richard II; Henry V attributed the English victory at Agincourt to St John, on the anniversary of whose translation in 1037 the battle was fought; thereafter, for a while at least, St John enjoyed a status as an English national saint to rival St George
Ancient history · Art history · Battle · Cult · Political science · Politics · Reign · SAINT · Throne · Victory · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |