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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Published in:	Royal Studies Journal
Main Author:	Matthew Clifton Brown
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Winchester University Press 2019-06-01
Subjects:	edward the confessor sacral kingship nationalism middle english hagiography chronicle south english legendary
Online Access:	https://rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/165