Lawrence, C. H. St. Edmund of Abingdon: A Study of Hagiography and History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Special Edition for Sandpiper Books, Ltd. ISBN: 0198212755. [10103]
Dark blue cloth with dust jacket, both in fine condition. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, x., 339 clean pp. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
"St. Edmund was the last Archbishop of Canterbury and the first Oxford master to have been officially canonized. He is also the first member of the nascent university about whom anything considerable is known, and an important figure in the political history of the late twelfth century...This book traces the hagiographic tradition through a close study of the primary texts..." - publisher.
The study and history are in English; the texts examined and included here are in Latin. First published in 1960.
