Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Texts and contexts The legend of St Edmund
8. Chapter 1 The emergence of the hagiographic tradition Abbo of Fleury, Passio Sancti Eadmundi 33
9. Chapter 2 De Miraculis Sancti Eadmundi Herman, Osbert and Samson 48
10. Chapter 3 Vita et miracula 63
11. Chapter 4 The elaboration of the hagiographic tradition 75
12. Chapter 5 The final flourish of the textual cult John Lydgate, The Lives of Sts Edmund and Fremund 89
13. Part II Relics, shrines and pilgrimage Encountering St Edmund at Bury
14. Chapter 6 Sacred immanence, the incorrupted body and the shrine of St Edmund 115
15. Chapter 7 The devotional and iconographical context of the shrine 138
16. Part III Beyond Bury Dissemination and appropriation
17. Chapter 8 Writing St Edmund into the East Anglian landscape 169
18. Chapter 9 Miracles beyond Bury 181
19. Chapter 10 Images of St Edmund 193
20. Chapter 11 Texts beyond Bury: legendary collections 227
21. Conclusion ‘Martir, mayde and kynge’, and more 239
22. Appendix 1 Synoptic account of the legend of St Edmund 246
23. Appendix 2 Chronology of significant events and texts associated with the cult of St Edmund 248
24. Bibliography 251
25. Index 274