Chronicle_Of_The_Abbey_Of_Bury_St_Edmunds

Chronicle Of The Abbey Of Bury St Edmunds Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds The Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds is about a simple story of the wise, firm, yet gentle rule of a medieval abbot over a great English monastery told from the perspective of a monk named Jocelin. Jocelin tells a story of a few brief years in the long history of an old English abbey in Bury St. Edmunds. There are three main characters that Jocelin focuses on during his story. The three figures that dominate this book are: St. Edmund, Abbot Samson, and Jocelin himself. Each figure plays an important role throughout the course of the story. First, I will start with St. Edmund. He was a man of “overriding importance to the life of the community at Bury” (Jocelin xi). St. Edmund was the king of the East Angles and was martyred by the Danes in 869; he was shot with arrows and beheaded. Although, sometime after his death, his presence was still felt by the monks of his house. The monks saw themselves as St. Edmund’s men, fighting as his host. St. Edmund protected these monks and they in abbot, st, jocelin, samson, story, people, edmund, town, community, within, monks, man, edmund’s, three, house, about, abbey, very, served, person, important, bury, after, years, turn, shrine, self, one, old, named, monastery, meal, made, loss