Summary: Saints have been a significant element of the Christian church from early times. Those who lived righteous lives were celebrated after their death, either officially through papal recognition or unofficially as cults, a practice which continued in England until the Reformation and which still continues in the Western Catholic world. Saints were part of the liturgical year and also the focus of indulgences, relic-lists and pilgrimage. Their lives, or legends, were the subject of prose and poetry. As intercessors and holy friends they served every stratum of society, from the monarch to the beggar. The culture of the saints was predominantly tactile and physical, because their shrines (and sometimes even their bodies) were accessible, and their images and symbols decorated stained glass, sculpture in wood and stone, and precious manuscripts. All these aspects of saints and cults in medieval England are handled in this new volume of 22 essays from the 2015 Harlaxton Symposium

Contents: Nigel Morgan, The Sarum Calendar in England in the Fourteenth Century ; David Lepine, 'Advocatis meis' - Patterns of Devotion to Saints Among the Late Medieval Higher Clergy ; R.N. Swanson, Intercessory Indulgence - Integrating Pardons with the Cults of Saints in Late Medieval England ; Julian Luxford, The Nature and Purpose of Medieval Relic-Lists ; David Starkey, A Royal Saint at Work - Henry VI, Henry VII and the Tudor Transformation of Cambridge ; Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Plague Saints, Henry VII, and Saint Armel ; David Harry, Marriage and Martyrdom - the Death of John Fisher Reconsidered ; Roger Dahood, Boy Crucifixion, Sainthood and the Puzzling Case of Harold of Gloucester ; Vincent Gillespie, The Nearly Man - 'Saint' Richard Rolle and His Textual Cult ; Christian Steer, The Order of Saint Francis in Medieval London - Urban Benefactors and Their Tombs ; Nicholas Orme, William Worcester and Saint-Collecting in Medieval England ; Christopher Wilson, The Shrine of Saint Erkenwald on Paper and in Reality ; John Crook, The Final Flourish - Shrines of English Saints in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries ; Jennifer S. Alexander, Guthlac and Company - Saints, Apostles and Benefactors on the West Front of Croyland Abbey Church ; Helen E. Lunnon, Inventing Saint Stephen - Art and Dispute in England in the Early Fourteenth Century ; Claire Gobbi Daunton, At the Edges and on the Ledges - Spaces for Saints and Sinners in Medieval West Norfolk ; Sarah Brown, Archbishop Richard Scrope's Lost Window in York Minster ; Nicholas Rogers, A Pattern for Princes - the Royal Window at the Greenwich Greyfriars ; John Scattergood, Saint Erkenwald and its Literary Relations ; Simon Horobin, Osbern Bokenham's Book of 'Legenda Aurea and of ožer famous legendes' ; Elisabeth Dutton & Tamara Haddad, The Historie van Jan van Beverley - Precedents for the Sensational Story of Rape, Murder and a Hairy Hermit. (Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 27)

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