The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
Autor Christopher De Hamelen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 aug 2020
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer'sCanterbury Talesto T. S. Eliot'sMurder in the Cathedraland Anouilh'sBecket.
In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel here identifies the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine: the Anglo-Saxon Psalter which he cherished throughout his time as Archbishop of Canterbury, and which he may even have been holding when he was murdered.
Beautifully illustrated and published to coincide with the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artefacts of medieval England.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241469583
ISBN-10: 0241469589
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 138 x 204 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241469589
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 138 x 204 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
In
the
course
of
a
long
career
at
Sotheby'sChristopher
de
Hamelprobably
handled
and
catalogued
more
illuminated
manuscripts
and
over
a
wider
range
than
anyone
else
alive.
He
is
a
Fellow
of
Corpus
Christi
College,
Cambridge,
and
was
Librarian
of
the
Parker
Library
from
2000
to
2016,
which
holds
many
of
the
earliest
manuscripts
in
English
language
and
history,
including
the
Psalter
of
Becket.
Christopher de Hamel is the author ofAHistory of Illuminated ManuscriptsandMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize in 2016. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.
Christopher de Hamel is the author ofAHistory of Illuminated ManuscriptsandMeetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize in 2016. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.
Recenzii
Readers
will
delight
in
de
Hamel's
passion
for
his
subject,
his
book's
sumptuous
illustrations,
and
above
all
his
virtuoso
display
of
learning
De Hamel - author of the wonderfulMeetings With Remarkable Manuscripts- shows us all the tools of the bibliographer's trade: dating handwriting, identifying pigments, noting the rust marks left by nails from a now-lost ornate binding ... The identification - or rehabilitation - of his psalter, the book he carried with him into exile, possibly held at his death, is a timely and enjoyable tribute.
Christopher de Hamel quotes Sherlock Holmes, as he might, in his latest bit of medieval detective work, showing that a book of the Psalms in a Cambridge college was once a treasured possession of St Thomas Becket ... grippingly told inThe Book in the Cathedral.
De Hamel - author of the wonderfulMeetings With Remarkable Manuscripts- shows us all the tools of the bibliographer's trade: dating handwriting, identifying pigments, noting the rust marks left by nails from a now-lost ornate binding ... The identification - or rehabilitation - of his psalter, the book he carried with him into exile, possibly held at his death, is a timely and enjoyable tribute.
Christopher de Hamel quotes Sherlock Holmes, as he might, in his latest bit of medieval detective work, showing that a book of the Psalms in a Cambridge college was once a treasured possession of St Thomas Becket ... grippingly told inThe Book in the Cathedral.