TY - BOOK ID - 3018563 TI - Thomas Becket and his biographers PY - 2006 VL - 28 SN - 1843832712 9781843832713 9781846155093 1846155096 PB - Suffolk Boydell & Brewer DB - UniCat KW - Biography as a literary form. KW - Christian martyrs KW - Christian saints KW - Biographie (Genre littéraire) KW - Martyrs chrétiens KW - Saints chrétiens KW - Biography KW - History and criticism. KW - Biographies KW - Histoire et critique KW - Thomas, KW - Biography as a literary form KW - History and criticism KW - 2 THOMAS BECKET KW - 930.21 "04/14" KW - 929 THOMAS BECKET KW - Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS BECKET KW - Historiografie: Middeleeuwen KW - Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--THOMAS BECKET KW - 929 THOMAS BECKET Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--THOMAS BECKET KW - 930.21 "04/14" Historiografie: Middeleeuwen KW - 2 THOMAS BECKET Godsdienst. Theologie--THOMAS BECKET KW - Biographie (Genre littéraire) KW - Martyrs chrétiens KW - Saints chrétiens KW - Christian martyrs - England - Biography - History and criticism KW - Christian saints - England - Biography - History and criticism KW - Thomas ep. Cantuariensis m. KW - Thomas, - à Becket, Saint, - 1118?-1170 KW - Saints KW - Canonization KW - Martyrs KW - Martyrdom KW - Authorship KW - Prose literature KW - Christianity KW - Technique KW - Thomas Cantuariensis KW - Thomas KW - Becket, Thomas à, KW - Becket, Thomas, KW - Becket conflict. KW - Lives of Thomas Becket. KW - Thomas Becket. KW - canon law. KW - conflict. KW - conversion. KW - exile. KW - hagiographical. KW - historical. KW - martyrdom. KW - theological writing. KW - trial. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3018563 AB - Our major sources for the life and death of Thomas Becket are rigorously examined in this major new book. In the wake of his murder in December 1170, an extraordinarily large number of Lives of Thomas Becket were produced. They provide an invaluable witness to the life and death of Thomas and the dramatic events in which he was involved, but they are also works of great literary value, more complex and sophisticated than has been recognised. This book, the first to be devoted to the biographers and their works, consists of an examination the individual Lives, followed by an analysis of the biographers' treatment of the major themes in Thomas's life - conversion, conflict, trial, exile and martyrdom - in the light of contemporary hagiographical, historical and theological writing and canon law. It raises points of major significance for the study of intellectual and literary life in the central middle ages and provides an important reassessment of the Becket conflict and Thomas Becket himself. Dr MICHAEL STAUNTON is Lecturer in Medieval History, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin. ER -