Editing Edict of Expulsion (section)

===Propagandising the Expulsion===
[[File:Drawing of the Shrine of Little St Hugh, Lincoln Cathedral, William Dugdale, 1641 crop.png|thumb|upright=0.6|right|alt=A drawing of a shrine with a very high, narrow design|The Shrine of [[Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln|Little Saint Hugh]], commemorating a [[blood libel]], at Lincoln Cathedral]] 

After the expulsion, Edward I sought to position himself as the defender of Christians against the supposed criminality of Jews. Most prominently, he continued personal veneration of [[Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln]], a child who whose death had been falsely attributed to ritual murder by Jews.{{sfn|Stacey|2001|pp=176—7}} After the death of his wife Queen Eleanor in late 1290, Edward reconstructed the shrine, incorporating the [[Coat of arms of England|Royal Coat of Arms]], in the same style as the [[Eleanor crosses]].{{sfn|Stocker|1986|pp=114-6}} It appears to have been an attempt by Edward to associate himself and Eleanor with the cult. According to historian Joe Hillaby, this "propaganda coup" boosted the circulation of the Saint Hugh myth, the most famous of the English blood libels, which is repeated in literature and the "[[Sir Hugh]]" folk songs into the twentieth century.{{sfn|Hillaby|1994|p=94—98}} Other efforts to justify the expulsion can be found in the Church, for instance in the canonisation evidence submitted for [[Thomas de Cantilupe]],{{sfn|Strickland|2018|p=463}} and on the [[Hereford Mappa Mundi|Hereford ''Mappa Mundi'']].{{sfn|Strickland|2018|pp=429—31}}