Sacral Kingship and Resistance to Authority in the Middle English Life of Edward the Confessor
In medieval England, the life of St. Edward the Confessor functioned as ideological myth; Henry III used it to show that the Plantagenet dynasty had reconciled two ‘nations’ within England after the Norman Conquest. Edward’s post-Conquest hagiography generally supports a sacralized monarchy and its...
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Winchester University Press
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Royal Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/165 |