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• W2004425247 abstract "Lydgate’s Problematic Commission: A Legend of St. Edmund for Henry VI Jennifer Sisk In the winter and early spring of 1433–1434, Henry VI paid an extended visit to the Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, where the abbot and monks in residence gave him a fittingly royal welcome.1 The young king appears to have enjoyed his stay, dividing his time between the abbot’s house, which had been enlarged and improved for the visit, and the prior’s quarters, which overlooked the open country and gave easy access to gentle recreations. Henry participated actively in religious observances while at the monastery and toward the end of his visit—on Easter Tuesday, in a ceremony at St. Edmund’s shrine—was formally admitted to the abbey’s confraternity, a ritual that allowed him to share the religious privileges of the monks. The abbot, William Curteys, responded to the king’s piety and devotion to his abbey’s patron saint by commissioning one of his monks—John Lydgate, perhaps the ablest poet in early fifteenth-century England—to compose a verse hagiography of St. Edmund that would be presented to the king in a lavishly illustrated manuscript.2 [End Page 349] Lydgate fulfilled this commission, but not to the letter. He in fact did significantly more than Abbot Curteys requested. Instead of merely producing a new version of a well-known story—the martyrdom of the Anglo-Saxon King Edmund at the hands of Danish invaders3—he produced for his young king a narrative that embeds an account of a second saint within a hagiography of the patron saint of Lydgate’s abbey.4 While in theory no problem should be posed by a single hagiographic narrative celebrating the lives of two saints, in Lydgate’s poem it results in a challengingly complex presentation. St. Edmund and St. Fremund provide incompatible models of behavior, and their actions yield contradictory messages. While both men oppose the Danes and object to pagan violence toward the Christian English, the strikingly different manners in which they comport themselves betray contrasting values regarding the relationship between religious imperatives and state-sponsored violence. Generic dissonance aids the semantic ambiguity created by these contradictory representations. The poem modulates in and out of multiple hagiographic modes (vita, passio, and miracula5), and, as it articulates ideals of Christian kingship, it is influenced and complicated by other genres, most notably the Fürstenspiegel. [End Page 350] Lydgate may have been prompted to stretch the terms of his commission in this way by the difficulty he perceived in producing a poem that would meet both of his abbot’s requirements—that it be a hagiography of St. Edmund, and that it be a fitting gift for this particular king. The occasion of its composition meant that it was likely to be read by the king and others in terms of its relevance to Henry, so Lydgate faced the problem of finding a way to reveal (or perhaps to invent) that relevance. But Henry was only twelve years old at the time of his visit to Bury; his royal identity was still in formation and the character of his adult reign yet to be determined.6 Lydgate may have wanted to write a poem that would register his royal potential, but doing so was not easy, since the young king was burdened by the legacy that his father, Henry V, had left him: the dual monarchy of England and France, with all its theoretical glory, and the attendant difficulty (or perhaps impossibility) of extending or even maintaining power and authority on the Continent. It would have been evident to Lydgate that the value of martial endeavors would be hotly debated in the foreseeable future. By the time of Henry’s visit to Bury, his reign was already troubled by the problem of France and would soon be dominated by the question of whether the crown should remain true to Henry V’s ideals or rather cut England’s losses and prioritize peace—even if doing so meant admitting defeat.7 In preparing to compose his poem, Lydgate must have asked himself what sort of narrative would make a meaningful..." @default.
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• W2004425247 title "Lydgate’s Problematic Commission: A Legend of St. Edmund for Henry VI" @default.
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