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Dear Katrinette:
George Beech has written about the evidence of veneration of St
Radegunde in England after her cult was introduced (perhaps re-introduced)
at Glastonbury around 970. In his 'England and Aquitaine in the Century
before the Norman Conquest,' Anglo-Saxon England 19 (1990), p. 91-22, he
connects the rise of her cult with visits by pilgrims from Aquitaine to
the shrine of St Ecgwine at Evesham in the latter half of the eleventh
century and ventures that:
'Aquitaine pilgrims may also have brought with them relics of St
Radegund such as those which New Minster in Winchester owned by the later
eleventh century and which testify further to the advance of her cult in
southern England at the time....
'A further indication of English interest in the cult of St Radegund was
the copying and circulating of her vitae. ...English archives hold at
least three of these, one each in the ninth, eleventh and twelfth
centuries, but the fact that none is known to have been in England prior
to 1100 shows that this was probably a later development.'
I hope this helps a bit with your question.
Best wishes,
Martin Howley
Dr Martin Howley, Humanities Librarian, Tel: (709) 737-8514
QE II Library, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland FAX: (709) 737-2153
St John's, NFLD, Canada A1B 3Y1 E-mail:[log in to unmask]
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bodarwe wrote:
....[SNIP...]
> not long ago there has been a discussion about Radegunde at MR or Medfem. I
> would like to add another question:
> Is there anything published about the reception of both Vitae Radegundis in
> later Middle Ages? How well known was Radegunde as saint in the 13. and 14.
> century? Could she have been an ideal for noble women living a religious
> life like Elisabeth of Thueringia?
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