St George: A Saint for All

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St George with or without the dragon has been repeatedly reinventedover the last 1700 years, and Samantha Riches presents a compellingaccount of the huge potential that artists, poets and painters have found inhis myth. She discusses the often-divisive political uses to which the sainthas been put, including many controversial reworkings and reimaginings,and places his current position in culture in its historical context. This isthe first book to offer a full overview of the cult of St George, from its beginningsin the Eastern Mediterranean to its flowering around the world today.

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Samantha Riches is a cultural historian based at Lancaster University. She is the author of Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, ans Saints in Late Medieval Europe (2011) and St George: Hero, Martyr and Myth (2005).