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The Quest for Becket's Bones
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: John R. Butler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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In January 1888, workmen excavating in the eastern crypt of Canterbury Cathedral discovered the bones of a skeleton many believed to be that of the martyred arc
The Relics of Thomas Becket
Language: en
Pages: 72
Authors: John Butler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-09 - Publisher: Pitkin

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In a ceremony of great solemnity in July 1220, almost fifty years after his murder in December 1170, the relics of Saint Thomas Becket, Canterbury’s most famo
The Cult of Thomas Becket
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Kay Brainerd Slocum
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout
Bones of Becket
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: E.J Powe
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-20 - Publisher: eBook Partnership

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'The Bones of Becket' is a thrilling mystery based around a tantalising urban myth. Set in Canterbury, England, this riveting story merges the past and present
The Corpse as Text
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Thea Tomaini
Categories: History
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Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'r