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The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries: Sanctity in Global Perspective

Autor Kay Brainerd Slocum
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2020
On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout Europe, generating a widespread cult which endured until the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, and engendering a fascination which has lasted until the present day. The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries 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.




The book offers a thorough commentary and analysis which demonstrates how the Canterbury martyr was viewed by writers of previous generations as well as our own, showing how they were influenced by the intellectual trends and political concerns of their eras, and indicating how perceptions of Thomas Becket have changed over time. In addition, several chapters are devoted a discussion of artworks in various media devoted to the saint, as well as liturgies and sermons composed in his honor.




Combining a wide historical scope with detailed textual analysis, this book will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religious history, art history, liturgy, sanctity and hagiography.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367583620
ISBN-10: 0367583623
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Sanctity in Global Perspective

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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.

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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.