Abstract
This is the introduction to a special issue on English Saints of the academic journal History, a publication of the Historical Association in partnership with Wiley. It discusses the significance of 2020 as a year for remembering saints whose cults were venerated in England in the Middle Ages, before introducing the articles included in this special issue.
Highlights
From the late twelfth century onward, sole authority to canonise an individual came to be vested in the papacy, after careful scrutiny of a body of evidence for a virtuous life and for the performance of posthumous miracles.[4] Such was the popularity of the cult of saints in England throughout the medieval period that images of saints adorned chapels, churches and cathedrals right up until the Reformation in the sixteenth century
The year 2020 is a special year of pilgrimage for Durham cathedral, coinciding with the launch of six new northern saints’ trails inspired by the lives of Aidan, Cuthbert, Oswald, Wilfrid, Hild and Bede
As Becket was a Londoner by birth, his anniversaries are being commemorated in the English capital by special events and exhibitions
Summary
From the late twelfth century onward, sole authority to canonise an individual came to be vested in the papacy, after careful scrutiny of a body of evidence for a virtuous life and for the performance of posthumous miracles.[4] Such was the popularity of the cult of saints in England throughout the medieval period that images of saints adorned chapels, churches and cathedrals right up until the Reformation in the sixteenth century.
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