English saints and the marine environment. The contribution of a few hagiographic texts to knowledge of the coastal environment in England at the beginning of the Middle Ages
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Abstract
This will not be so much an answer — which, necessarily nuanced, would have nothing original — to the question of the historical reliability of hagiographic stories, but to present a small sample of extracts from Anglo-saxon worms; stress, after rapid stripping, what their originality owes to the experience and the quality of observation of the authors; and show how they can be a source of first value...