Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a nine-hundred-year-old story retold / John Guy.
Guy, John, 1952 November 17-
2012
DA209.T4 G89 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a nine-hundred-year-old story retold / John Guy.
Author Guy, John, 1952 November 17-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9781400069071 (alk. paper)
1400069076 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New York : Random House, c2012.
Language English
Description xxii, 424 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number DA209.T4 G89 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 942.03/1092 B
Summary Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between Saint Thomas à Becket and England's greatest medieval king, Henry II, separating truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casting doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Becket's seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ancestry
Upbringing
Politics
Paris
A fresh start
Apprentice
Into the limelight
Arrival at court
Royal minister
Bureaucrat and judge
Warrior
A solitary man
Render unto Caesar
Archbishop
A broken relationship
Conversion
The clash
Clarendon
Northampton
Exile
Attack and counter-attack
Search for a settlement
The case against Becket
Cat and mouse
A trial of strength
Return to Canterbury
Murder in the cathedral
Aftermath
Martyr.

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