Thomas Becket

Name: Thomas Becket
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ISBN: 9780340741382

ISBN-10: 0340741384

ISBN-13: 9780340741382

Edition: 2004

Authors: Anne Duggan

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The question 'Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?' must be one of the most notorious in history. Four knights interpreted it as a hint from their sovereign, rode to Canterbury, and there in his own cathedral murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket. Or so the story goes. Of Becket's murder there can be no doubt, nor is there any question about the spectacle of Henry II performing public penance for the act by being flogged round Canterbury Cathedral, but so much is obscured by the very act of martyrdom and the cult that followed it that a great many issues remain unresolved. The construction and deconstruction of Becket's reputation is central to this provocative new study. The cult of…

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 10/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.880




The social climber



The controversial archbishop



The trial



Flight and exile



Defiance? : the Vezelay excommunications



God's honour and the church's liberty



God's honour and my order



God's honour, king's honour, Becket's honour



A hollow peace : Freteval and after



Murder in the cathedral



The image constructed and deconstructed, 1171-1900



Conclusion