Mehr zum Buch
Medieval manuscript historian and author of the widely acclaimed Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Beckett.The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170, is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's Becket . In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel here identifies the Anglo-Saxon Psalter which Becket cherished throughout his time as Archbishop of Canterbury and which he may even have been holding when he was murdered. Beautifully illustrated, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artifacts of medieval England and the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine.
Buchkauf
The Book in the Cathedral, Christopher de Hamel
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- (Paperback)
Keiner hat bisher bewertet.
- Titel
- The Book in the Cathedral
- Untertitel
- The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Christopher de Hamel
- Verlag
- Penguin
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 128
- ISBN10
- 014199424X
- ISBN13
- 9780141994246
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Religiöse Themen, Kunst, Christliche Themen, Britische Literatur, Europa, England, Geschenke für Männer, Großbritannien, Mittelalter, Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte Europas, Über Bücher, Geschichte der Kirche, Geschichte der Religion, Geschichte Englands, Mittelalterliches England, Mittelalterliche Manuskripte, Seltene Bücher, Kodikologie, Thomas Cromwell
- Beschreibung
- Medieval manuscript historian and author of the widely acclaimed Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Beckett.The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170, is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's Becket . In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel here identifies the Anglo-Saxon Psalter which Becket cherished throughout his time as Archbishop of Canterbury and which he may even have been holding when he was murdered. Beautifully illustrated, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artifacts of medieval England and the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine.