The Life And After-Life of St John of Beverley
Subtitle: The Evolution of the Cult of an Anglo-saxon Saint (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West) (Church, ... Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780754653264
Subjects: Christianity; History of religion; Saints & hagiography; Middle Ages, 600-1500; General; Christian saints; History; Biography / Autobiography; Medieval; History: World; Anglo-Saxons; Biography; Cult; England; History of doctrines
First sentence: This work represents the first ever study of St John of Beverley, bishop of Hexham from 687 to 706, and then bishop of York from 706 until his retirement some years before he died on 7 May 721.