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On 29 December 1170, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights from the household of his former friend and patron, King Henry II. The horror that the killing inspired and the miraculous cures performed at Thomas's tomb transfigured him into one of the most popular saints in Western Christendom, and Canterbury became one of the greatest pilgrim shrines in the West. Yet these were unexpected results. Thomas's extraordinary career had been, and remains, controversial. The transformation of a handsome, attractive, and worldly courtier into a zealous prelate, a bitter exile and finally a martyr was for many hard to understand. In 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 irregularities in the story that have been ignored in other studies.… (más)
WHOAAAAAA. What a snoozer this is. It is interesting enough. But how do you write an entire book about two spoiled brats? Thomas Becket by Frank Marlow is informative and gives a good insight into the cat and mouse antics of the King and Archbishop. The outcome is of course sad and pathetic. Ending with the murder of a man who for all apparent purposes was just sticking to his guns and doing what he was appointed to do by the church. The book drones on and on about sooooo many other people involved in Becket's exile and eventual gruesome murder. Very tough read...…even for a history buff. This is a classic and tragic tale of medieval cancel culture. ( )
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'The Donatists glory in their persecution. But what could be more wretched and perverse than this open refusal to be confounded by the punishment for their wickedness -- even more, their desire to be praised for it. For with extraordinary blindness they do not see, or with damnable audacity conceal their knowledge, that it is not the penalty which makes true martyrs, but the cause.' St Augustine, Letter no. 89, Migne PL, xxxiii. 310
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In the afternoon of St Thomas the Apostle's day (21 December), perhaps in 1120, there was born to Matilda, wife of Gilbert Becket, a prosperous merchant and citizen of London, a son.
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[The archbishop’s court] sentenced him to the loss of his prebend and all other revenues for two years, with the profits to be distributed to the poor at the king’s discretion, to a public whipping in the presence of the judge he had insulted, and possibly to one or two years’ banishment. Henry [II] was outraged by the leniency.
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But they were also awed by his unexpected triumph through the mysterious working of God, to whom all things were possible. It was something to ponder.
On 29 December 1170, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights from the household of his former friend and patron, King Henry II. The horror that the killing inspired and the miraculous cures performed at Thomas's tomb transfigured him into one of the most popular saints in Western Christendom, and Canterbury became one of the greatest pilgrim shrines in the West. Yet these were unexpected results. Thomas's extraordinary career had been, and remains, controversial. The transformation of a handsome, attractive, and worldly courtier into a zealous prelate, a bitter exile and finally a martyr was for many hard to understand. In 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 irregularities in the story that have been ignored in other studies.
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