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Ch. 1 | Saint Martin of Tours, Christian Anti-hero | |
Sulpicius and the anti-heroic | 1 | |
Anti-war tropes in the Vita Sancti Martini | 10 | |
Soldier saints, holy warriors and the prehistory of the Crusades | 21 | |
Ch. 2 | Holy Kingship: Sanctification of Warfare | |
Holy kingship and the Anglo-Saxons | 26 | |
Tropes in the cult of martyred warrior-kings | 28 | |
Edwin in the Life of Gregory the Great | 30 | |
Edwin in Bede's Historia Eccelesiastica | 35 | |
Oswald in Bede's Historia Eccelesiastica | 42 | |
The cult of warrior-kings | 56 | |
Ch. 3 | Saint Guthlac, Spiritual Warrior | |
The trope of spiritual transformation | 58 | |
Guthlac and spiritual transformation | 62 | |
Earthly warfare in Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci | 64 | |
Spiritual warfare in Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci | 75 | |
King AEthelbald's spiritual transformation | 81 | |
Changing perceptions of warfare and sanctity | 90 | |
Ch. 4 | Holiness and Heroism: Poetic Lives of Soldier Saints | |
Hagiography and poetry | 93 | |
Heroic saintly women: 'Juliana' and 'Elene' | 95 | |
Juliana: steadfast soldier of Christ | 96 | |
Elene: saintly power and prestige | 107 | |
Andreas: warrior evangelist | 123 | |
The Anglo-Saxon spiritual warrior: 'Guthlac A' and 'Guthlac B' | 131 | |
'Guthlac B': lordship and sainthood | 131 | |
'Guthlac A': transformation of the chosen saint | 137 | |
Old English verse saints' lives: unity in diversity | 146 | |
Ch. 5 | Alcuin and Abbo: Cultural Cross-pollination | |
Cross-channel contacts and cultural cross-pollination | 148 | |
Alcuin's poem on the bishops, kings and saints of York | 149 | |
Edwin and heroic Christian kingship | 151 | |
Oswald, scepter and sword | 159 | |
Abbo of Fleury's Passio Sancti Eadmundi | 167 | |
Abbo's Edmund: holy martyr, holy king | 176 | |
Holy cross, holy sword | 190 | |
Ch. 6 | AElfric: Path of the Holy Christian Soldier | |
AElfric's Lives of Saints and the trope of spiritual fulfillment | 192 | |
Exclusions and inclusions: Lives of Saints as composite text | 198 | |
Warfare and violence in AElfric's Lives of Saints | 207 | |
Alban, Edmund and Oswald: violence and Christian resistance | 211 | |
Judas Machabeus and the order of bellatores | 218 | |
Spiritual fulfillment and 'The Forty Soldiers, Martyrs' | 237 | |
AElfric's synthesis | 244 | |
Ch. 7 | Warfare and Sanctity: Record of a Changing Ethos | |
Hagiography and cultural change | 247 | |
Anglo-Saxon versions of the Life of Martin | 250 | |
Aldhelm's Martin: virgin of Christ | 252 | |
Alcuin's Martin: active fighter for Christ | 253 | |
Martin in the Old English Martyrology | 257 | |
The anonymous Martin homily: secular versus spiritual | 259 | |
AElfric: changing conceptions of warfare and sanctity | 264 | |
Martin, soldier sainthood and the call to Crusade | 274 | |
Martin in the South English Legendary 'with is swerd adrawe' | 277 | |
Warfare and sanctity in the later Middle Ages | 282 | |
App. 1 | The Chronology of St. Martin's Life | 284 |
App. 2 | St Guthlac's Popularity in Early England | 286 |
References | 288 | |
Index | 310 |
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