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Martyrs in the making : political martyrdom in late medieval England /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Piroyansky, Danna, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
England > Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Martyrdom.
Martyrs > England > History > To 1500.
Christianity and politics > England > History > To 1500.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mapping martyrdom
  • Martyrdom in religious ideas and practices
  • Martyrdom between orthodoxy and heterodoxy
  • Metaphorical use of martyrdom
  • Thomas Earl of Lancaster : Christ's knight
  • From condemnation to cure : cult chronology
  • Lancastrian affinities
  • Chivalry
  • Justice and injustice
  • Archbishop Richard Scrope : shepherd of the people
  • Cult chronology : saint or martyr?
  • The bishop's roles
  • Scrope and the city of York
  • King Henry VI : glory of innocence
  • Cult chronology : from Chertsey to Windsor
  • Posthumous popularity
  • Royal imagery
  • Protector against the plague
  • Patron of learning
  • A holy innocent
  • The political idiom of suffering
  • A death worth a martyr's crown : other martyrs and their cults
  • Kings
  • Bishops
  • Barons
  • Conclusion
  • Cult creation
  • Cult purposes
  • Martyrdom : 'old' versus 'new'?
  • Shared and distinctive traits
  • The English church.