Lucy Holland in conversation with Amy Jeffs
Wed 25 Sept
|Tiverton
In this beautiful book, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain uncovers and analyses the strange and wonderful legends of saints and the window they provide into the medieval mind.
Time & Location
25 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 20:30
Tiverton, Phoenix House, Phoenix Ln, Tiverton EX16 6SA, UK
About The Event
A sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strength. Illustrated with over thirty original paper cutouts by the author.
Saints’ legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes’ suffering and wonderworking shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves, women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws.
In Saints, Amy Jeffs retells legends born of the medieval cult of saints. She draws on ‘official’ lives, vernacular romances, artworks and obscene poetry, all spanning from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. The legends’ heroes originate from as far east as Turkey and North Africa and as far west as Britain and Ireland. Saints includes such enduring super saints as Brigid, George, Patrick and Michael, as well as some whose legends are less well known (Scoithín, Euphrosyne and Ia) or else couched in prejudice (William of Norwich).
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