Saints : a new legendary of heroes, humans, and magic / Amy Jeffs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffs, Amy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian saints--Great Britain--Biography.

Christian saints.

Christian legends--Great Britain--Biography.

Christian legends.

Physical Description:

xx, 427 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2025.

London : CarmeliteHouse, 2024.

Summary:

From the bestselling author of Storyland and Wild comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty, and heroic strength. Illustrated by the author with over thirty original papercut portraits. In Saints, historian and artist Amy Jeffs illuminates the lives of medieval saints, drawing on official biographies, vernacular romances, artworks, and poetry to tell of wayfaring monks, oak-felling missionaries, and mighty martyrs. Organized by feast month, this enchanting compendium presents the legends of Brigid, Patrick, Nicholas, and Augustine as well as saints whose stories are less well-known (Ia, Mungo, Scoith̕n, and Euphrosyne). Combining history and myth, tradition and invention, Jeffs offers transporting tales of demons and dragons, men raised by wolves, and women who commune with birds. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: Legenda

Quikening

Scoithin: the sailor on the plain

Edward the Confessor: an eye for an eye

Mungo: the broken bird

Smaragdus: the lost child

Agnes: Death in Aquarius

Brigid: Virgin, Again

Werburgh: the goose princess

Ia: the impossible boat

David: shifting ground

Patrick: the dreadful door

Cuthbert: otters in the cold

William of Norwich: the body in the woods

Outsending

George: the princess and the dragon

Mellitus: sacred salmon

Erkenwald: a secret under St. Paul's

Brendan: the skull

Mary: cherry time

Boniface: the fallen oak

Columba: the wind whisperer

Alban: the unfortunate executioner

Mightsomeness

Veronica: the true image

Uncumber: the golden shoe

Margaret: a strange gestation

Christopher: the wandering giant

James: the unthinkable penance

The seven sleepers: into the cave

Germanus: the resurrection

Lawrence: "Turn me over and eat"

Batholomew: skin on skin

Marymas: from Eden to Golgotha

Ailbhe: wolf child

Cosmas and Damian: spiritual surgery

Michael the Archangel: a hole in the head

Clensing

Frideswide: the hiding place

Ursula and Cordula: 11,000 dead

Martin: four wishes

Edmund: Aelwine the Hairdresser

Catherine: the scholar and the wheel

Nicholas: the mistake

Thomas Becket: the rose and the lily

Testament

Epilogue

Timeline o feast days

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781524899721

1524899720

OCLC:

1492479809

Publisher Number:

050837479364