medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Quoting "Christopher M. Mislow" <[log in to unmask]>:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
>
>> Guthlac (d. 714) The cult of Guthlac was one of the most important
>> of medieval England. Guthlac lived as a hermit on the isle of
>> Crowland
>
> Phyllis,
>
> Are you sure about the *isle* of Crowland? My admittedly undetailed
> atlas shows Crowland landlocked in central England, in Lincolnshire,
> situated roughly NNE of Peterborough.
>
> --Christopher
It is now, but much of East Anglia was marshland until the eighteenth
or nineteenth century. Ely in Cambridgeshire was an island in the
marshes until at least the seventeenth century, and it was officially
known as the "Isle of Ely" until 1974.
Gordon
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