Kay Brainerd Slocum

The Cult of Thomas Becket

History and Historiography through Eight Centuries

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9781138103283
• ISBN-10: 1138103284
• Artikelnr.: 54649869

Autorenporträt

Kay Brainerd Slocum is Professor Emerita at Capital University, USA, where she was previously the Gerhold Professor of Humanities. She is the author of three books and multiple journal articles on music and medieval and religious history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One: Saint and Cult 1 The Creation of Saint Thomas of
Canterbury 2 Thirteenth-Century Translations 3 "Hooly Blisful Martir": The
Development of the Becket Cult 4 Liturgies, Sermons and the Translation of
1220 5 Becket and Iconography Part Two: Becket and The Reformation 6 Henry
VIII and the Specter of Thomas Becket 7 Becket as a Symbol for the Catholic
Opposition Part Three: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Views of Becket
8 Rationalism and the Canterbury Martyr 9 Victorian Biographers and
Antiquarians Part Four: Becket in the Modern and Postmodern World 10 Becket
in Legal and Intellectual History 11 Twentieth-Century Biographies of the
Canterbury Martyr 12 Becket Scholarship in the Postmodern World and Beyond;
Conclusion