IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1103: Royal, Patron, and Civic Saints
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Lincoln School of Humanities & Performing Arts, University of Lincoln |
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| Organiser: | Jude Mackley, School of Arts, University of Northampton |
| Moderator/Chair: | Joanna Huntington, Lincoln School of Humanities & Performing Arts, University of Lincoln |
| Paper 1103-a | The Pagan Heritage of St George (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Hagiography, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1103-b | Defending the Realm: Region and Nation in the Cult of St Edmund of East Anglia (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Local History |
| Paper 1103-c | The Bishop, the Squire, and the Virgin: St Margaret of Antioch and the Politics of Early 15th-Century King's Lynn (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Local History |
| Abstract | This session considers representations of three saints: the first paper explores the pagan heritage of St George, looking at how sources and analogies for the saint have been translated into later medieval iconography and folklore; the second examines the cultic development process by which Edmund was transformed from historical footnote, to virgin martyr, to national patron and defender; the final paper discusses a cycle in 15th century stained glass showing the life of St Margaret of Antioch as a personification of the town of King's Lynn and used by the Bishop of Norwich to comment on political upheaval there. |