The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography Through Eight Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780367583620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 340 str.

Kay Brainerd Slocum

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Kay Brainerd Slocum is Professor Emerita at Capital University, USA, where she was previously the Gerhold Professor of Humanities. She is the author of three books and multiple journal articles on music and medieval and religious history.