Thomas Becket
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Thomas Becket: An Intimate Portrait
By Karen Bollermann, Cary J. NedermanThomas Becket: An Intimate Portrait oilers a new approach to understanding the man: through the writings of John of Salisbury, a fellow English churchman who was a long-time associate of and advisor to Becket.
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Thomas Becket: An Intimate Portrait
By Karen, Nederman, Cary J.An Intimate Portrait Nederman, Cary J., Bollermann, Karen. the clash in terms of principles rather than personalities, did the ghastly violence demonstrate a deep structural fissure. In modern times, John's idea that the spiraling ...
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Thomas Becket
By Frank BarlowIn this brilliant new biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, Frank Barlow reconstructs Thomas's physical environment and entourage at various stages of his career, exploring the nuances and ...
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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel
By John GuyA number of his worried servants, sent ahead to prepare his chamber, were waiting there to tell him that his usual quarters at the castle had already been taken by the royal squires. Nothing could be done to evict them that day, ...
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Thomas Becket
By William Holden Huttondress of a lay brother; sometimes he was called Brother Derman, sometimes Brother Christian.1 From Haverholme he travelled by night into Kent, stopping at another Gilbertine house, Chicksand in Bedfordshire. So he came at last to Eastry ...
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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel : a Nine-hundred-year-old Story Retold
By John Guy253-424; R. Thomson, "What Is the Entheticus?" in World ofjohn of Salisbury, ed. Wilks, pp. ... The Battle Abbey chronicler's account of the faction around Richard de Lucy is from Chronicle of Battle Abbey, ed. Searle, pp. 160-61.
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Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint
By Lloyd De Beer, Naomi SpeakmanThe exhibition features objects from the British Museum collection as well as important loans from major collections across the UK and Europe, including an entire medieval stained glass window on loan for the first time from Canterbury ...
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Thomas Becket
By Frank BarlowThomas Becket
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Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts, and Cult
By Anne DugganBecket's life was lived on a European stage, his cause was conducted in a European setting, and the cult of the new martyr spread with extraordinary rapidity to the furthest...
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Thomas Becket: His Last Days
By William UrryFocusing on the last month of Becket's life after his return to Canterbury, the author describes the dispute that broke out with renewed ferocity culminating in his murder in the...
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Thomas Becket: Friends Networks Texts and Cult
By Taylor & Francis Group, Anne J DugganBased on the critical examination of manuscripts and texts, this collection focuses first on the papal curia and Becket's household in exile.
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Thomas Becket: Defender of the Church
By Father John S. HoganHis is the story of every Christian; though the time and circumstances may differ, the struggle remains the same. Nine hundred years after his death, Saint Thomas Becket remains a man and a saint for our times.
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Thomas Becket: English Saint and Martyr
By David HilliamA look at the life of Thomas Becket, his ongoing dispute with King Henry II, and the resulting consequences.
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Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult
By Anne J. DugganBased on the critical examination of manuscripts and texts, this collection focuses first on the papal curia and Becket's household in exile.
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Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult
By Anne J. DugganBased on the critical examination of manuscripts and texts, this collection focuses first on the papal curia and Becket's household in exile.
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Thomas Becket
By Anne DugganThis book investigates whether the popular conception of Becket through the ages is a result of valid assessments of the man and his cause, or a product of a carefully constructed myth, and how far can one correct for the bias and reach the ...