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BL
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952073
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b706443
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| Main Entry
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Piroyansky, Danna,1974-
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| Title & Author
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Martyrs in the making : : political martyrdom in late medieval England /\ Danna Piroyansky.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
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xi, 205 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0230516920
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: 9780230516922
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-192) and index.
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| Contents
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Mapping martyrdom -- Martyrdom in religious ideas and practices -- Martyrdom between orthodoxy and heterodoxy -- Metaphorical use of martyrdom -- Thomas Earl of Lancaster : Christ's knight -- From condemnation to cure : cult chronology -- Lancastrian affinities -- Chivalry -- Justice and injustice -- Archbishop Richard Scrope : shepherd of the people -- Cult chronology : saint or martyr? -- The bishop's roles -- Scrope and the city of York -- King Henry VI : glory of innocence -- Cult chronology : from Chertsey to Windsor -- Posthumous popularity -- Royal imagery -- Protector against the plague -- Patron of learning -- A holy innocent -- The political idiom of suffering -- A death worth a martyr's crown : other martyrs and their cults -- Kings -- Bishops -- Barons -- Conclusion -- Cult creation -- Cult purposes -- Martyrdom : 'old' versus 'new'? -- Shared and distinctive traits -- The English church.
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This title explores the late medieval English cults which evolved around 'political martyrs'. By examining these cults the richness of political culture is revealed, and insights offered into the ways in which belief, worship, social and civic identities, and political language and practice were constructed and re-constructed.
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Christianity and politics-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Martyrdom.
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Martyrs-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Christianity and politics.
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Martyrdom.
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Martyrs.
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England, Church history, Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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272
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942.030922
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BR747.P58 2008
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