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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
