Talk:Guthlac of Crowland

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This must be merged with Guthlac ~ Dpr 07:05, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Inclusion of modern icon of St. Guthlac
I reverted the edit by User:Mathsci. Mathsci had reverted an edit which added a modern icon of St. Guthlac. Mathsci's objection was that the icon had no "educational value." I'm not certain that "educational value" is the criterion used on this page, else why are there the pictures of churches named for St. Guthlac, which pictures have nothing to do with the person himself? The inclusion of the modern icon shows that there is currently some cultus of the saint, just as the church pictures give witness to a medieval cultus. (Full disclosure: I am the custodian of the icon in question, though I had nothing at all to do with the photo being uploaded to wikimedia or added to the article.) Queezbo (talk) 20:52, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The other images are of the Guthlac rolls from the British Library. These are ancient texts which have been written about extensively and have immense historical value. An icon produced in the twentieth century has no educational value whatsoever. Previous editors of the article have chosen to mention the St Guthlac family of churches and they are illustrated in the gallery. As far as I am aware almost none of the churches have a direct link with any cult of Guthlac: there is no indication of that in the article. The cult of Cuthbert (and Godric) is well documented by Reginald of Durham, amongst others. Mathsci (talk) 06:34, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Ague and Marsh fever
The current text says he suffered from ague, which is a piped link to fever, and "marsh fever", which redirects to History of malaria. Now, I always thought that ague was malaria, but according to ague can mean either that or fever in general. Do we know which is ment in this case? (The source isn't cited). If the source just says "ague" with no further explanation, then it should probably link to that rather than being interpreted to mean something more specific, and "marsh feaver" should either be explained and/or link directly to malaria. Iapetus (talk) 16:33, 11 June 2013 (UTC)