Author Event: Saints

Part of the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival 2025!

Next Event
12th October 6:00pm
Event Finishes
12th October 7:00pm

About this event

Saints’ legends suffused medieval European culture. Their heroes’ suffering and wonder- working shaped landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Their tales spoke of men raised by wolves, women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws.

In Saints, Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, Amy Jeffs retells legends born of the medieval cult of saints, including our own King Edmund. She draws on ‘official’ lives, vernacular romances, artworks and obscene poetry, all spanning from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries. The commentaries following the stories offer a history of each saint, and trace the rise and fall of the medieval cult of saints from the first martyrs to the Protestant Reformation.

Kindly sponsored by Bury Developments

Books: Saints, Wild, Storyland (Quercus)

Suitability: 12+ Timing: 50 mins followed by book signing

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