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What is Edmund about?

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England’s greatest former churches and shrines? The scattered ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a poignant memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town, though celebrated in Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers, is now a quiet place, out of the way; and arguably eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But in the Middle Ages, all was entirely different. Bury was then one of the most famous places in the land, renowned far and wide. It attracted thousands of pilgrims a year from right across Europe, while the Abbey’s custodians – the abbots of Bury – used their immense power and prestige to influence both monarchs and magnates. How could an obscure borough in rural East Anglia once have enjoyed such an important role on the national stage? The answer can be traced to an almost forgotten figure whose reputation inspired the very idea of an ‘England’. In his gripping account of a historical mystery and conundrum, Francis Young shows how present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car park of the remains of Richard III. Fo

Author

Francis Young;

Published

2018

Language

EN