SAINTS: LEGENDS OF HEROES HUMANS AND MAGIC (PB)

Saints suffused medieval European culture. Their suffering and wonder-working informed landscapes, rituals and folk beliefs. Tales spoke of men raised by wolves, women communing with flocks of birds and severed heads calling from between bristling paws. Amy Jeffs draws on 'official' lives, vernacular romances, artworks and obscene poetry, from the fourth to the sixteenth centuries, to retell the stories of saints from Turkey and North Africa to Britain and Ireland. By the bestselling author of Storyland and Wild.