Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult

Anne J. Duggan is Professor Emerita of Medieval History at King's College London, UK.

Contents: Preface; Part I Friends and Networks: Thomas Becket's Italian network; John of Salisbury and Thomas Becket; The price of loyalty: the fate of Thomas Becket's learned household. Part II Letters and Texts: Classical quotations and allusions in the correspondence of Thomas Becket: an investigation into their sources; Authorship and authenticity in the Becket correspondence; The coronation of the young king in 1170; Diplomacy, status and conscience: Henry II's penance for Becket's murder; Ne in dubium. The official record of Henry II's reconciliation in Avranches, 21 May 1172. Part III Cult: The cult of St Thomas Becket in the 13th century; Aspects of Anglo-Portuguese relations in the 12th century. Manuscripts, relics, decretals and the cult of St Thomas Becket at Lorvão, Alcobaça and Tomar; A Becket office at Stavelot: London, British Library additional ms 16964; The Lorvão transcription of Benedict of Peterborough's Liber miraculorum beati Thome: Lisbon, cod. Alcobaça ccxc/143; The Santa Cruz transcription of Benedict of Peterborough's Liber miraculorum beat Thome: Porto, BPM, cod. Santa Cruz 60; The Salem FitzStephen: Heidelberg Universitäts-Bibliothek cod. Salem ix.30; The Lyell version of the Quadrilogus Life of St Thomas of Canterbury; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.