The Cross cult, King Oswald, and Elizabethan historiography

In Thomas Stapleton's The History of the Church of Englande (1565), the first modern English translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, the cross cult is promoted as a definitive element of English religious and national identity, via the legend of the Saxon king Oswald....

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Main Author: Stapleton, Paul J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2016]
In: British Catholic history
Year: 2016, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-57
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBF British Isles
Further subjects:B John Foxe
B Bede
B Iconoclasm
B The Faerie Queene
B Thomas Stapleton
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