Saturday, 3 July 2021

British Museum Exhibition 2021: Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint

The 29th December 2020 was the 850th anniversary of the murder of Becket. The British Museum created an exhibition to commemorate the event.




Thomas Becket at The British Museum - YouTube






Pilgrim Badges and Miscellania in British Museum
Collection search - British Museum p.1
Collection search | British Museum p. 2

badge-mould - British Museum

panel - British Museum

Reconstruction of Becket's Shrine

  1. Sarah Blick (2003) Reconstructing the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 72:4, 256-286, DOI: 10.1080/00233600310019327

    John Jenkins (2020) Modelling the Cult of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 173:1, 100-123, DOI: 10.1080/00681288.2020.1771897

The Tomb of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, c.1408

The Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral, c.1408 - YouTube

Hampson, Louise. "Remembrance of Things Past: Recreating the Lost World of Medieval Pilgrimage to St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury and the Use of Digital Media in Public Access." Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6, 2 (2017): 65-71. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol6/iss2/8

Images

The Becket Casket | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections

Consecration of St Thomas Becket as archbishop | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections

Relikskrin Trönö Sweden - Google Search https://bit.ly/3At5ucW

Becket Images

References

John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres); John of Salisbury (2009). Anselm & Becket: Two Canterbury Saints' Lives. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. ISBN 978-0-88844-298-7.

Paul Binski (2004). Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300. Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. ISBN 978-0-300-10509-4.


Saint Thomas Becket window in Chartres Cathedral - Wikipedia

Constitutions of Clarendon: William of Canterbury

Constitutions of Clarendon: Benedict of Peterborough

William of Canterbury and Benedict of Peterborough: the manuscripts, date and context of the Becket miracle collections  Author: Nicholas Vincent
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.HAG-EB.1.101043

Koopmans, Rachel. “Visions, Reliquaries, and the Image of ‘Becket’s Shrine’ in the Miracle Windows of Canterbury Cathedral.” Gesta, vol. 54, no. 1, 2015, pp. 37–57. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/679400.


  1. Rachel Koopmans (2016) ‘Water mixed with the blood of Thomas’: contact relic manufacture pictured in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained glass, Journal of Medieval History, 42:5, 535-558, DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2016.1222503

    2. Rachel Koopmans (29 November 2011). Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-0699-1.
    Koopmans, Rachel. Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj625.

    Rachel Koopmans (2020) Gifts of Thomas Becket’s Clothing Made by the Monks of Canterbury Cathedral, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 173:1, 39-60, DOI: 10.1080/00681288.2020.1784551

    Visions, Reliquaries, and the Image of “Becket’s Shrine” in the Miracle Windows of Canterbury Cathedral | Gesta: Vol 54, No 1 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/679400

      STAUNTON, MICHAEL. “The Lives of Thomas Becket and the Church of Canterbury.” Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World, edited by PAUL DALTON et al., vol. 38, Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY, 2011, pp. 169–186. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81q16.16.

      Canterbury cathedral All the medieval stained glass The Rose Window

      Stained glass window from Canterbury Cathedral to be centrepiece for UK exhibition on Thomas Becket at the British Museum 
      https://bit.ly/2SJiM43

      Blick, Sarah, editor. “King and Cleric: Richard II and the Iconography of St Thomas Becket and St Edward the Confessor at Our Lady of Undercroft, Canterbury Cathedral.” Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges: Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2007, pp. 182–200. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1cd0px1.19.

      Sarah Blick (8 July 2007). Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges: Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer. Oxbow Books, Limited. ISBN 978-1-78297-459-8.

      Blick, Sarah. (2007). Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges: Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298995756_Beyond_Pilgrim_Souvenirs_and_Secular_Badges_Essays_in_Honour_of_Brian_Spencer

      Brian Spencer (2010). Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-544-8.

      Paul Webster (Medievalist); Marie-Pierre Gelin (2016). The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World, C.1170-c.1220. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-78327-161-0.

      Kay Brainerd Slocum (26 October 2018). The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-59338-0.

      Gareth Atkins (25 August 2016). Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-0023-8.

      Chartres Cathedral complete medieval stained glass Window 18: Thomas Becket

      JENKINS, JOHN. (2020). St Thomas Becket and Medieval London. History. 105. 652-672. 10.1111/1468-229X.13030. [PDF] wiley.com
      St Thomas Becket and Medieval London
      Frank Reynolds; Donald Capps (1976). The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion. Chapter 6 - Victor Turner: Religious Paradigms and Political Action: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 153–. ISBN 978-90-279-7522-5.

      Chaucer Ellesmere Tales Stock Photos & Chaucer Ellesmere Tales Stock Images - Alamy https://bit.ly/3xeHCb2
  2. The Miracles at Canterbury - Getty Iris

    Reliquaries/Châsses of St. Thomas Becket

    Reliquary Chasse with Scenes of the Martyrdom of Thomas Becket - Treasures of Heaven

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    Elizabeth Hasseler: TRANSLATION, CANONIZATION, AND THE CULT OF THE SAINTS IN ENGLAND, 1160-1220

    Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket - Wikipedia

    Reliquaries/Châsses of St. Thomas Becket

    Canterbury Cathedral - Wikipedia

  4. Canterbury Cathedral - Treasures of Heaven

  6. Actes Du Colloque International de Sedieres. Editions Beauchesne. pp. 233–.

  7. Christopher Harper-Bill; Nicholas Vincent (2007). Henry II: New Interpretations. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-340-6.

    S. D. Church (2003). King John: New Interpretations. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85115-947-8.

  9. Plaque from a Reliquary Chasse - Treasures of Heaven

  11. Eysteinn Erlendsson - Wikipedia

    The English Exile of Archbishop Øystein of Nidaros (1180–83) | Exile in the Middle Ages
Was Thomas Becket a Controversial Saint in Scandinavia? — Medieval Histories


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