Amy Jeffs

Amy Jeffs: Saints

In her beautiful new book Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic, Amy Jeffs, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain uncovers and analyses the strange and wonderful legends of saints and the window they provide into the medieval mind.

Numerous saints were held to have lived and performed miracles across Britain and beyond, from only decades after Christ's death, up to the eve of the Reformation. Today, stories of saintly heroes are all but forgotten, especially by the secular West. This is a wrong that art historian Amy Jeffs sets out to redress in this astonishing, beautiful study: she argues that we should treat saints’ stories with the reverence we treat myth or folklore.

Amy is an enthralling storyteller and authoritative voice on medieval lives and legends. Now a Somerset-based author, she illustrates her books with print and paper cutout. As well as Storyland she also wrote Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain which was published in 2022. 

This event is taking place in Wheeldon Suites 2 & 3.

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