The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography Through Eight Centuries
- ISBN-10
- 0367583623
- ISBN-13
- 9780367583620
- Category
- Christian hagiography
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-06-30
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Kay Brainerd Slocum
Description
This book contributes to the lengthy debate surrounding the saint by providing a historiographical analysis of the major themes in Becket scholarship, tracing the development of Becket studies from the writings of the twelfth-century biographers to those of scholars of the twenty-first century.
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