6
Feb
Posted by Michelle in Aethelwold of Winchester, Audrey of Ely, Blessed Virgin Mary, East Anglia, Ely, Liber Eliensis, St Peter, Wilfrid of Ripon. Tagged: Queen Aelfthryth. Leave a Comment
[I'm going to use Audrey for St Aethelthryth because of the similarity of her name to Queen Aelfthryth.]
I was reading a paper by Mary Clayton recently and she mentions that the re-dedicated house of Ely was dedicated to Sts. Mary, Peter and Audrey, but that Audrey soon became the dominant patron after the death of [...]
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4
Feb
Posted by Michelle in Audrey of Ely, Blessed Virgin Mary, Iconography, Medieval Women. Tagged: Benedictional of Aethelwold. 5 Comments
As I mentioned in my review of Blanton’s Signs of Devotion, I decided that I need to follow up on the interpretation of the choir of virgins in the Benedictional of Aethelwold.
So I picked up these books from the library:
Prescott, Andrew. intro. The Benedictional of St Aethelwold: A Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Art: A Facsimile. The [...]
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15
Jan
Posted by Michelle in Audrey of Ely, Blessed Virgin Mary, Canterbury, East Anglia, Ely, Liber Eliensis, Penda of Mercia, Wilfrid of Ripon. Tagged: Church of St Mary in Ely. Leave a Comment
The Liber Eliensis makes a rather startling claim for Augustine of Canterbury:
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“there had not yet been any church on the island [of Ely] other than the one founded by blessed the Augustine, the apostle of the English, but that was demolished right down to ground level by army of the unbelieving King Penda. This [...]
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8
Jan
Posted by Michelle in Audrey of Ely, Blessed Virgin Mary, Ely, Iconography, Medieval Women, archaeology. 1 Comment
Anne Rudloff Stanton. (1988) “The Virigin, the Queen, and the Cathedral: St Etheldreda of Ely and her Influence on the Ely Lady Chapel” Medieval Perspectives IV-V: 196-205.
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I was reading this article this afternoon and there are several things I find particularly interesting. The Lady Chapel (#6) at Ely Cathedral is in an unusual position, set [...]
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3
Jan
Posted by Michelle in Audrey of Ely, Blessed Virgin Mary, Book Reviews, Monasticism, Queens, Venerable Bede. 3 Comments
Virginia Blanton. Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England 695-1615. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.
They say that every age rewrites history to suite itself. Few topics show this better than the evolution of a saint’s cult. In Signs of Devotion, Virginia Blanton has followed the textual cult of St. Æthelthryth from [...]
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