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

Guy, John, 1952- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781400069071 (hc) :
Physical Description: print
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.