England’s other ‘Westminster Abbey’: Bury St Edmunds and its Royal Shrine
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While the shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey may be more famous, the royal shrine that mattered the most to England's kings between the 10th and 16th centuries was located outside London in the Suffolk town of Bury St Edmunds. This lecture explores who St Edmund was, why he mattered so much to England's kings, and how successive monarchs honoured England's greatest royal saint and the great Benedictine abbey that bore his name and claimed to hold his incorrupt body.
This free online lecture is given by Dr Francis Young. Dr Young is a historian and folklorist, the author of 14 books, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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