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Thomas Becket
December 10, 2021
St Thomas a Becket - man of principle or celebrity opportunist? (a question asked in the title of a review I read of this book) and the answer is probably both at different times of his life.
This is the first genuine "life" that I've read of a christian saint - it's (definitely) not a hagiography, it's not an anti-religious attack and it deals very little with his post-death cult sainthood and goal of pilgrimages.The archbishop of canterbury biography books free Land with a red white and green flag Air france fleet member The archbishop of canterbury biography books pdf
This is the first genuine "life" that I've read of a christian saint - it's (definitely) not a hagiography, it's not an anti-religious attack and it deals very little with his post-death cult sainthood and goal of pilgrimages.
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Thomas is treated in this book as very much a human being, as if he had been a poet, a merchant or a courtier. And Barlow seems to do a good job, among the restrictions and problems that a life lived 900 years ago throws up.
The opening chapters are extremely confusing - names, locations and historical events are thrown at me with no regard for my very human brain to keep track.
Eventually I had to just accept that it was the big story that I was following, not every side road and byway.
Thomas Becket came from merchant stock - success