TY - BOOK ID - 85463436 TI - A life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic. PY - 2012 SN - 1139226177 1108049214 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Statesmen KW - Christian saints KW - Christian martyrs KW - Bishops KW - Thomas, KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Archbishops KW - Clergy KW - Major orders KW - Metropolitans KW - Orders, Major KW - Chaplains, Bishops' KW - Episcopacy KW - Thomas Cantuariensis KW - Thomas KW - Becket, Thomas à, KW - Becket, Thomas, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85463436 AB - This Old Norse text and English translation, prepared by the librarian and scholar Eiríkr Magnússon (1833-1913) and published in two volumes between 1875 and 1883, remains the standard edition of the 'Saga of Archbishop Thomas'. Composed in Iceland in the early fourteenth century, it narrates the life, death and miracles of Thomas Becket, based on earlier Latin and Old French traditions. Embedded in the saga is a lost Latin life by Robert of Cricklade, written soon after Becket's murder in 1170, which contains some unique details: for example, that he had a stammer. The saga is valuable not only as evidence for Becket's life, but as an insight into the development of his saintly cult in Iceland. Volume 1 contains the account of Thomas's childhood, his life as chancellor and archbishop, his conflict with the king and his murder at Canterbury. ER -