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How did Edmund go from being a defeated regional king to the patron saint of England and why did a Danish monarch decide to build an Abbey in his honour?
These are the themes behind the latest in a series of free, online talks, to mark 1000 years since the founding of the Abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds.
“The way the Abbey of St Edmund came into being, compared to all of the other medieval Abbeys in England, is quite possibly unique in that it seems to owe its origins to the ordinary East Anglian people,” said historian Professor Sarah Foot, the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford.