Thomas Becket

Author(s)

• Barlow, Frank

Bibliographic Information

Thomas Becket

Frank Barlow

Phoenix Press, 2000, c1986

• : [pbk]

Note

"First published in paperback in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1986, this paperback edition published in 2000 by Phoenix Press"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the biography of Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury describing his brutal murder by knights of King Henry II, an event which transfigured him into one of the most popular saints in Western Christendom.

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Details

• NCID: BA64902441
• ISBN:
  • 1842124277
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 334 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 198.4
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : England. Becket, Thomas, Saint - Biographies
  • BLSH : Becket, Thomas, Saint1118?-1170
  • LCSH : Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170
  • LCSH : Christian saints -- England -- Canterbury (Kent) -- Biography
  • LCSH : Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Canterbury (Kent) -- Biography
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- Henry II, 1154-1189