Английская Википедия:Edmund the Martyr

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Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869)Шаблон:Refn was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death.

Few historical facts about Edmund are known, as the kingdom of East Anglia was devastated by the Vikings, who destroyed any contemporary evidence of his reign. Coins minted by Edmund indicate that he succeeded Æthelweard of East Anglia, as they shared the same moneyers. He is thought to have been of East Anglian origin, but 12th century writers produced fictitious accounts of his family, succession and his rule as king. Edmund's death was mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which relates that he was killed in 869 after the Great Heathen Army advanced into East Anglia. Medieval versions of Edmund's life and martyrdom differ as to whether he died in battle fighting the Great Heathen Army, or if he met his death after being captured and then refusing the Viking leaders' demand that he renounce Christ.

A popular cult emerged after Edmund's death, and he was canonised by the Church. A series of coins commemorating him was minted from around the time East Anglia was absorbed by the kingdom of Wessex in 918, and in about 986, the French monk Abbo wrote of his life and martyrdom.

During the 10th century, Edmund's remains were translated from an unidentified location in East Anglia to Beodricesworth (modern Bury St Edmunds); they were temporarily moved to London for safekeeping in 1010. Edmund's cult flourished during the Early and High Middle Ages, and he and Edward the Confessor were regarded as the patron saints of medieval England until they were replaced by Saint George in the 15th century.Шаблон:Sfn Medieval manuscripts and works of art relating to Edmund include Abbo's Passio Sancti Eadmundi, John Lydgate's 15th-century Life, the Wilton Diptych, and a number of church wall paintings.

King of the East Angles

Accession and rule

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The kingdom of the East Angles

The existence of Edmund is known from coins minted by his moneyers, three of whom—Dudda, Eadmund, and Twicga—minted coins for Edmund's predecessor, Æthelweard which suggests that a smooth transition of power occurred.Шаблон:Sfn The earliest documentary reference to Edmund is in the 870 annal of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle compiled 20 years after his death. According to the historian Susan Ridyard, Edmund was born Шаблон:Circa and acceded to the East Anglian throne in Шаблон:Circa.Шаблон:Sfn Nothing is known of his life or reign from contemporary written sources. The devastation in East Anglia that was caused by the Vikings destroyed all the charters that may have referred to Edmund.Шаблон:Sfn

Edmund cannot be placed within any ruling dynasty. The 10th century French monk Abbo of Fleury stated that Edmund was Шаблон:Lang, which according to Ridyard "was probably Abbo's rather verbose way of saying he was descended from the ancient nobility of his race".Шаблон:Sfn

A variety of different coins were minted by Edmund's moneyers during his reign.[1] The letters AN, standing for 'Anglia', appear on the coins of only Edmund and Æthelstan, another 9th century king of the East Angles; the letters appear on Edmund's coins as part of the phrase + EADMUND REX AN[GLORUM] ("Edmund, King of the Angles").Шаблон:Sfn Edmund's later coins read + EADMUND REX ("Edmund, King").Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Otherwise, no chronology for his coins has been confirmed.Шаблон:Sfn

Death and burial

For decades after the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793, their attacks on England were mainly raids on isolated monastic communities. According to the Annales Bertiniani and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a larger-scale attack occurred in Шаблон:Circa. By the end of the decade the Vikings had started to over-winter in England.Шаблон:Sfn A larger force still, known to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle chroniclers as the Шаблон:Lang (‘Great Heathen Army’), appeared in 865. Three thousand men in hundreds of ships arrived off the east coast of England, probably from bases in Ireland. The army's first winter was spent in East Anglia before they moved on, arriving in Northumbria by 866/867.Шаблон:Sfn The Great Heathen Army attacked Mercia by the end of 867 and made peaceful terms with the Mercians; a year later the Vikings returned to East Anglia.Шаблон:Sfn

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which generally described few matters relating to the East Angles and their rulers, relates that "here the army rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took winter-quarters at Thetford; and that winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danish took the victory, and killed the king and conquered all that land".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Where Edmund was killed and whether he died in battle or was murdered by the Danes afterwards is not known.Шаблон:Sfn The Great Heathen Army went on to invade Wessex in late 870, where they were confronted by Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, the future Alfred the Great.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Edmund was buried in a wooden chapel near to where he was killed. At a date generally assumed by historians to have been during the reign of Æthelstan, who became king of the Anglo-Saxons in 924, Edmund's body was translated from Шаблон:Lang—the location of which has never been conclusively identified—to Шаблон:Lang, now modern Bury St Edmunds.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 925 Æthelstan founded a religious community to take care of Edmund's shrine.Шаблон:Sfn

Memorial coinage

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A St Edmund memorial penny (British Museum)

Following the death of the Danish Guthrum, king of East Anglia, in around 890,Шаблон:Refn the same moneyers who had minted his coins started to produce money in commemoration of Edmund.Шаблон:Sfn The coins, whose design was based upon those produced during Edmund's reign, provide the earliest evidence that he was venerated as a saint.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn All the pennies and (more rarely) half-pennies that were produced read SCE EADMVND REX—'O St Edmund the king!'. Some of them have a legend that provides evidence that the Vikings experimented with their initial design.Шаблон:Sfn

The St Edmund memorial coins were minted in great quantities by a group of more than 70 moneyers, many of whom appear to have originated from continental Europe; over 1800 specimens were found when the Cuerdale Hoard was discovered in Lancashire in 1840.Шаблон:Sfn The coins were widely used within the Danelaw. They have mainly been found in the east of England, but the exact location of any of the mints they came from is not known with certainty, although scholars have assumed that they were made in East Anglia.Шаблон:Sfn

Veneration

Cult at Bury St Edmunds

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Edmund's cult was promoted and flourished, but it declined, with the production of St Edmund coins ceasing after around 910. The saint did not reappear in liturgical calendars from the 9th century until the appearance of Abbo of Fleury's Passio Sancti Eadmundi three centuries later.Шаблон:Sfn In 1010, Edmund's remains were translated to London to protect them from the Vikings, where they were kept for three years before being returned to Bury.Шаблон:Sfn

The Danish king Canute, who ruled England from 1016,Шаблон:Sfn converted to Christianity and was instrumental in founding the abbey at Bury St Edmunds.Шаблон:Sfn The new stone abbey church was completed in 1032, having possibly been commissioned by Canute in time to be consecrated on the 16th anniversary of the Battle of Assandun, which took place on 18 October 1016.Шаблон:Sfn Edmund's shrine became one of the most famous and wealthy pilgrimage locations in England. The abbey's power grew upon being given jurisdiction over the western half of the county of Suffolk by the creation in 1044 of the Liberty of Saint Edmund, established by Edward the Confessor, and a larger church was built in 1095, into which Edmund's relics were translated.[2]Шаблон:Refn After the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the abbot planned out over 300 new houses within a grid-iron pattern at a location that was close to the abbey precincts, a development which caused the town to more than double in size.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn King John is said to have given a great sapphire and a precious stone set in gold to the shrine, which he was permitted to keep upon the condition that it was returned to the abbey when he died.Шаблон:Sfn

Edmund's shrine was destroyed in 1539, during the dissolution of the monasteries. According to a letter (now in the British Library's Cotton Collection), the shrine was defaced, and silver and gold to the value of over 5,000 marks was taken away. The abbot and his monks were expelled and the abbey was dissolved.Шаблон:Sfn

Cult at Toulouse

In 1664, a lawyer from the French city of Toulouse publicized a claim that Edmund's remains had been taken from Bury by the future Louis VIII of France following his defeat at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.Шаблон:Sfn The relics had then been donated by Louis to the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse.Шаблон:Sfn The first record of this is a relic list for Saint-Sernin of around 1425, which included St Edmund among the church's relics.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1644, after the city was saved from the plague from 1628 to 1631, which the population ascribed to the intercession of a saint known to the church authorities as Aymundus, who they decided was Edmund. In gratitude for its deliverance, the city vowed to build a new reliquary for the saint's remains. Edmund's cult flourished there for over two centuries.Шаблон:Sfn The reliquary, designed by Jean Chalette, was silver and adorned with solid silver statues.Шаблон:Sfn In 1644, the relics were verified and catalogued for interment in the newly-completed shrine, by which time the cult's origins had been forgotten.Шаблон:Sfn Edmund's shrine was removed in 1794 during the French Revolution. The saint's relics were restored to the Basilica of Saint-Sernin in 1845 and placed in a new reliquary.Шаблон:Sfn

Relics at Arundel

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Arundel Castle in West Sussex

In 1901 the Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert Vaughan, received "certain relics" from the Basilica of Saint-Sernin. The relics, believed at the time to be those of St Edmund, were intended for the high altar of London's Westminster Cathedral, which was then under construction.Шаблон:Sfn

The acceptance of the relics required the intercession of Pope Leo XIII, after an initial refusal by the church in France.Шаблон:Sfn Upon their arrival in England they were housed in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle prior to their translation to Westminster. Although their validity had been confirmed in 1874, when two pieces were given to Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, concerns were raised about the authenticity of the Arundel relics by Montague James and Charles Biggs in The Times. The relics remained at Arundel under the care of the Duke of Norfolk while a historical commission was set up by Cardinal Vaughan and Archbishop Germain of Saint-Sernin. They remain Шаблон:As of at Arundel.Шаблон:Sfn In 1966 three teeth from the collection of relics from France were given to Douai Abbey in Berkshire.Шаблон:Sfn

Commemoration and attributes

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Monument in Hoxne, Suffolk, marking the location of an ancient oak tree, supposed to be the site of Edmund's death.

The feast day of Edmund, King and Martyr in the Catholic Church is 20 November.Шаблон:Sfn He is also remembered in the Church of England, with a Lesser Festival on this day of the year.[3] Edmund's particular attributes are the arrow and the sword,Шаблон:Sfn being an English king, his attributes include the orb and sceptre.Шаблон:Sfn According to the Oxford Dictionary of Saints, his attribute can also be a wolf.Шаблон:Sfn

A stone cross at Hoxne in Suffolk marks one supposed location of Edmund's death. The monument records that it was built on the site of an ancient oak tree which fell in 1848 and was found to have an arrow head embedded in its trunk.[4] Some fifty-five Church of England parish churches are dedicated to Edmund, perhaps the most notable being the Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Lombard Street in the City of London. The Benedictine community of Douai Abbey also has Edmund as its patron.[5] There is a St Edmunds chapel at the East end of Tewkesbury Abbey[6]

Medieval hagiographies and legends

Passio Sancti Eadmundi

Шаблон:Anchor In about 986, the monks of Ramsey Abbey commissioned Abbo of Fleury to write Edmund's Шаблон:Lang, or account of his martyrdom.Шаблон:Sfn According to Abbo, St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the source of the story of the martyrdom, which he had heard told long before, in the presence of Æthelstan, by an old man who swore an oath that he had been Edmund's sword-bearer.Шаблон:Sfn

In Abbo's version of events, the king refused to meet the Danes in battle, preferring to die a martyr's death. According to Ridyard, Edmund's martyrdom cannot be proven and the nature of his fate—whether he died fighting or was murdered after the battle—cannot be read from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Ridyard notes that the story that Edmund had an armour-bearer implies that he would have been a warrior king who was prepared to fight the Vikings on the battlefield, but she acknowledges the possibility that such later accounts belong to "the realm of hagiographical fantasy".Шаблон:Sfn

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Abbo named one of Edmund's killers as Hinguar, who can probably be identified with Ivarr inn beinlausi (Ivar the Boneless), son of Ragnar Lodbrok.Шаблон:Sfn After describing the horrific manner of Edmund's death, the Шаблон:Lang continued the story. His severed head was thrown into the wood. As Edmund's followers searched for him, calling out "Where are you, friend?" the head answered, Шаблон:Lang ("Here! Here! Here!") until at last they found it, clasped between a wolf's paws, protected from other animals and uneaten. The followers then recovered the head.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Abbo failed to date these events surrounding Edmund's translation to Шаблон:Lang, although from his text it can be seen that he believed that the relics had been taken to Beodericsworth by the time that Theodred became Bishop of London in around 926.Шаблон:Sfn Upon exhumation of the body, a miracle was discovered. All the arrow wounds upon Edmund's undecayed corpse had healed and his head was reattached.Шаблон:Sfn The last recorded inspection of the body whilst at Bury St Edmunds was in 1198.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The resemblance between the deaths of St Sebastian and St Edmund was remarked upon by Abbo: both saints were attacked by archers, although only Edmund is supposed to have been decapitated. His death bears some resemblance to the fate suffered by other saints: St Denis was whipped and beheaded and the body of Mary of Egypt was said to have been guarded by a lion.Шаблон:Sfn The English medievalist Antonia Gransden described Abbo's Passio as "little more than a hotch-potch of hagiographical commonplaces" and argues that Abbo's ignorance of what actually happened to Edmund would have led him to use aspects of the Lives of well-known saints such as Sebastian and Denis as models for his version of Edmund's martydom. Gransden acknowledged that there are some aspects of the story—such as the appearance of the wolf that guards Edmund's head—that do not have exact parallels elsewhere.Шаблон:Sfn

Miracles of St Edmund

Herman the Archdeacon, who was an excellent Latinist, wrote another hagiography of Edmund, the Miracles of St Edmund, at the end of the eleventh century. His original text does not survive, but a shortened version is part of a book dating to around 1100 produced by Bury St Edmunds Abbey, which is composed of Abbo's hagiography, followed by Herman's. The hagiographer and musician, Goscelin, soon afterwards produced a revised version of Herman's Miracles, which was hostile to Herman personally.Шаблон:Sfn Both versions are printed and translated by Tom Licence.Шаблон:Sfn

Other legends

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A 12th-century depiction of Edmund's martyrdom (Morgan Library & Museum, New York)

De Infantia Sancti Edmundi, a fictitious 12th-century hagiography of Edmund's early life by the English canon Geoffrey of Wells, represented him as the youngest son of 'Alcmund', a Saxon king of Germanic descent. 'Alcmund' may never have existed.Шаблон:Sfn Edmund's fictitious continental origins were later elaborated upon in the 15th century by the poet John Lydgate in his The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund.Шаблон:Sfn Lydgate spoke of his parentage, his birth at Nuremberg, his adoption by Offa of Mercia, his nomination as successor to the king and his landing at Old Hunstanton on the North Norfolk coast to claim his kingdom.Шаблон:Sfn

Edmund was said to have been crowned by Humbert, bishop of Elmham on 25 December 855, at a location known as Шаблон:Lang, possibly Bures St Mary in Suffolk. At that time Шаблон:Lang functioned as the royal capital.Шаблон:Sfn Biographical details of Edmund in the Catholic Encyclopedia, published in 1913, include that "he showed himself a model ruler from the first, anxious to treat all with equal justice, and closing his ears to flatterers and untrustworthy informers".Шаблон:Sfn It was written that he withdrew for a year to his royal tower at Hunstanton and learned the whole Psalter, so that he could recite it from memory.Шаблон:Sfn

Edmund may have been killed at Hoxne, in Suffolk.Шаблон:Sfn His martyrdom is mentioned in a charter that was written when the church and chapel at Hoxne were granted to Norwich Priory in 1101. Place-name evidence has been used to link the name of Hoxne with Haegelisdun, named by Abbo of Fleury as the site of Edmund's martyrdom, but this evidence is dismissed by the historian Peter Warner.Шаблон:Sfn The association of Edmund's cult with the village has continued into modern times.Шаблон:Refn Dernford in Cambridgeshire,Шаблон:Sfn and Bradfield St Clare[7] (near Bury St Edmunds) are other possible sites for where Edmund was martyred.Шаблон:Refn In a preface to Lydgate's Life, in which Edmund's banner—depicting three crowns set on a blue background—is described,Шаблон:Sfn the crowns are said to represent Edmund's martyrdom, virginity and kingship.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn

The ancient wooden St Andrew's Church, Greensted-juxta-Ongar in Essex, is said to have been a resting place for his body on the way to Bury St Edmunds in 1013.Шаблон:Sfn

Patronages

Edmund is the patron saint of pandemics as well as kings,Шаблон:Sfn the Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia,[8] and Douai Abbey.[9] England did not ever have a single patron saint before the Tudor period;Шаблон:Sfn during the Middle Ages, several saints were considered to have a close association with England and to be nationally important: St Edmund; St Gregory the Great; St Edward the Confessor; St Thomas Becket; and St George. Of these saints, Edmund was the most consistently popular with English kings,Шаблон:Sfn although Edward III raised the importance of George when he associated him with the Order of the Garter.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2006, BBC Radio Suffolk radio presenter Mark Murphy and David Ruffley, the Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds, failed in their campaign to reinstate Edmund as the patron saint of England.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn In 2013, BBC News reported a new campaign launched by Murphy and the brewer Greene King, which is based in Bury St Edmunds, to reinstate St Edmund as England's patron saint. Supporters of the campaign stated their hopes that a petition could be used to force Parliament to debate the issue.[10][11]

In art

The veneration of Edmund throughout the centuries has created a legacy of noteworthy works of art. An illustrated copy of Abbo of Fleury's Passio Sancti Eadmundi, made at Bury St Edmunds in around 1130, is now kept at the Morgan Library in New York City.Шаблон:Sfn The copy of John Lydgate's 15th-century Life, written for Henry VI of England, is held at the British Library.[12] The Wilton Diptych was painted during the reign of Richard II of England and is the most famous representation of Edmund in art. Painted on oak panels, it shows Edmund and Edward the Confessor as the royal patrons of England presenting Richard to the Virgin and Child.Шаблон:Sfn[13] The poet John Lydgate (1370Шаблон:Ndash1451), who lived all his life in Bury St Edmunds, presented his twelve-year-old king Henry VI of England with a long poem (now known as Metrical Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund) when Henry came to the town in 1433 and stayed at the abbey for four months.Шаблон:Sfn The book is now kept by the British Library in London.[14] Edmund's martyrdom features on several medieval wall-paintings to be found in churches across England.Шаблон:Refn

The saint features in a romantic poem, Athelston, whose 15th-century author is unknown. In the climactic scene of the poem, Edyff, the sister of King 'Athelston' of England, gives birth to Edmund after passing through a ritual ordeal by fire.Шаблон:Sfn

See also

Notes

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References

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Further reading

External links

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  • Illuminated manuscripts depicting Edmund, from the British Library:
- Harley 1766 Шаблон:Webarchive (The Fall of Princes)
- Royal 2 B VI Шаблон:Webarchive (Psalter and Canticles 13th century)

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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  4. ↑ Шаблон:National Heritage List for England
  5. ↑ Mackinlay 1893, pp. 324–325
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia website Шаблон:Webarchive.
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  10. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  14. ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок BL-2278 не указан текст
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