Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Edmund the Martyr

Edmund the Martyr[edit]

Edmund the Martyr has already achieved GA status. It seems to compare favourably to similar articles in outside sources. There is an outstanding 'Request for Comment' regarding Edmund the Martyr and the patron saint of England. Hopefully, peer review editors can add a comment reqarding that issue. Other than that contentious issue, what are the flaws that exist in the article that the contributing editors have missed. Wassupwestcoast 14:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is St Humbert the same person as Humbertus? How much of the article is from Britannica, can that template be removed? How definite is the birth year of 841, was he said to be 14 on accession in 855? DrKiernan 15:35, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My view is that it needs to adopt a more historical approach if it is going to be all that it could be. That doesn't mean we ignore the hagiography, but it needs an awful lot more context. Why are Abbo & Ælfric's versions different? What do later versions tell us? Why did Cnut order the observation of E.'s feast across England? What, if anything, does Edward the Confessor's (probably true on some level) claim of kinship mean? How did E. become the most important saint in Danish East-Anglia within a generation of his death? How and why did E.'s cult spread to Ireland/Scandinavia/etc? And so on. At the moment the article does a good job of explaining the minimal historical detail and the principal early accounts, but that's only a start. Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]