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The life of King Edward who rests at Westminster
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ISBN: 0198202032 9780198202035 Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,


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Aelredi Rievallensis Vita Sancti Ædwardi regis et confessoris ; Anonymi Vita Sancti Ædwardi versifice
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ISBN: 9782503551821 2503551823 Year: 2017 Volume: 3A 7 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols Publishers,

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The most popular biography of St. Edward the Confessor. Aelred of Rievaulx’s Vita sancti Ædwardi Regis et Confessoris was written on request of Laurence, abbot of Westminster, soon after the canonization of King Edward in 1161, and was presented to King Henry II on the occasion of the translation of the body of the saint on the 13th of October 1163. Preceded by a biography written by an anonymous author for Edward’s wife, Queen Edith, and by the clearly hagiographical biography written by the prior of Westminster, Osbert of Clare, in 1138, Aelred’s Vita enriched the hagiographical dossier of the saint with new miraculous episodes and was also endowed with strong political messages. It soon became the official biography of the saint and its fortune is witnessed not only by the number of manuscripts that contain the text, but also by the fact that all the successive biographies of the saint were directly or indirectly dependent on it. This first critical edition of the Vita provides a text based on the best manuscript witnesses together with the editio princeps of a versification of the Vita written by an anonymous poet few years later.


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Edward the Confessor
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ISBN: 9781843834366 1843834367 9781846157165 9786612987649 1846157161 128298764X Year: 2009 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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The millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth presents an appropriate occasion for a full-scale, up-to-date reassessment of his life, reign and cult, a reappraisal which is provided in the essays here. After an introduction to the many views of Edward's life, and a reinterpretation of the development of his cult, the volume considers his childhood in England and its influence upon his later life; the time he spent in Normandy and the relationships that developed there; and his later life, including an examination of the role played by Edith, his queen. There is also a particular focus upon Westminster Abbey, and the major new discoveries which have recently been made there. Incorporating both broad surveys and the fruits of detailed new work, this book is essential reading for all those interested in late Saxon and Norman England.

CONTRIBUTORS: RICHARD MORTIMER, SIMON KEYNES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, STEPHEN BAXTER, PAULINE STAFFORD, ERIC FERNIE, WARWICK RODWELL, RICHARD GEM, EDINA BOZOKY

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Edward, --- Westminster Abbey --- History --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Kings and rulers --- Biography --- Rois et souverains --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Eduardus Confessor rex Anglorum --- Edward, - King of England, - ca. 1003-1066 --- Great Britain - Kings and rulers - Biography --- Great Britain - History - Edward, the Confessor, 1042-1066 --- History. --- Aedward, --- Aedwardus, --- Eadward, --- Eadweard --- Edouard, --- Edward --- St. Peter's (Westminster, London, England) --- Abby Church of Westminster (London, England) --- Saint Peter's (Westminster, London, England) --- Collegiate Church of St. Peter (Westminster, London, England) --- Dean and Chapter of Westminster (London, England) --- Abbey of St. Peter (Westminster, London, England) --- Abbey Church of Westminster (London, England) --- Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii (London, England) --- Abbey of Saint Peter (Westminster, London, England) --- Westminster Abbey Church (London, England) --- Ecclesia Abbatiae Westmonasteriensis (London, England) --- Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster (London, England) --- Church of St. Peter (Westminster, London, England) --- Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster (London, England) --- Westminster Cathedral (London, England : 1540-1556) --- Great Britain. --- ART / History / General. --- Biography. --- Birth. --- Cult. --- Edward the Confessor. --- Edward's reign. --- England. --- Legend. --- Man. --- Millennium. --- Monarchs. --- Norman. --- Normandy. --- Queen. --- Royal. --- Saxon. --- Westminster Abbey.

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