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Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a nine-hundred-year-old story retold  Cover Image Book Book

Thomas Becket : warrior, priest, rebel : a nine-hundred-year-old story retold / John Guy.

Guy, John, 1952- (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400069071 (hc) :
  • Physical Description: xxii, 424 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. table, maps ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ancestry -- Upbringing -- Politics -- Paris -- A fresh start -- Apprentice -- Into the limelight -- Arrival at court -- Royal minister -- Bureaucrat and judge -- Warrior -- A solitary man -- Render unto Caesar -- Archbishop -- A broken relationship -- Conversion -- The clash -- Clarendon -- Northampton -- Exile -- Attack and counter-attack -- Search for a settlement -- The case against Becket -- Cat and mouse -- A trial of strength -- Return to Canterbury -- Murder in the cathedral -- Aftermath -- Martyr.
Subject: Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170.
Christian martyrs > England > Biography.
Christian saints > England > Biography.
Statesmen > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain > History > Henry II, 1154-1189 > Biography.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch 942.031092 Thoma-G 31681002269637 NONFIC Available -


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