The Cult of Becket was at least as far ranging and important for Western Christendom as was the Cult of Delphi for Ancient Greece. It was largely because of the Cult that we remember Becket today as a historical figure: a huge hagiographic industry soon grew up around his martyrdom. In his day Becket was a national hero, of a similar stature that Nelson was later on in his own time
It was the very body of Becket which started the Cult. Fearing a possible attempt by the murderers to take it away out of the church and dump it in some unholy place, Becket was hastily buried by the monks of Canterbury in a marble crypt. Under the guidance of the canons of the Church of Canterbury there soon arose a Cult around this tomb. This not only indicated that indeed Becket had been martyred, but that the murderers obviously had been serious criminals. Also the Cult was even seen to be as a permanent thorn in the side of the king Henry, because the responsibility of the murder was laid on his shoulders: the growing Cult was clear and living proof of his guilt. As long as the king had not paid for his crime there remained a certain unrest in his kingdom. This situation only came to be resolved following the penance of Henry in 1174 at the new tomb of Becket which had been erected specially for him.
Soon after his murder a huge number of miracles became attributed to Becket. These continued to appear long after his death. However as time passed fewer and fewer were recorded. Miracles stories had a great popularity amongst pilgrims and locals. It was customary to visit the place where it was recorded that the miracles had taken place, which usually was in the vicinity of the tomb and relics of a saint. In this way miracles stories were essential to the development of a Cult. Almost immediately after his death the collection of Becket's relics at Canterbury began to receive pilgrims. The Cult was seen not so much to be about the marauding killers who had battered him to death but was more for the veneration of objects that had been directly associated with him, namely his clothing and blood which mattered much more. The monks had even filled a keg claiming it was his blood. These relics in turn reinforced just how important the event of his murder had been.
If Magna Carta documented the constitutional limits to royal power in England, the translation of Becket's remains to his new shrine in Canterbury cathedral on 7th July 1220 by Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury laid down, represented or symbolised those limits spiritually. Here was the prime monument to the nation's pre-eminent martyr. Every pilgrim to Canterbury who may have gone primarily for health reasons, would soon have learned in more detail about how Thomas Becket had challenged royal authority, and died for it as a martyr to liberty, even if only for the liberty of the Church. His death was nothing less than defiance of the royal tyranny of the Angevins. It was thus the Cult of Becket became a political matter. The Cult of Becket became far more than the historical person himself. The Roman Church's liberty in England was untouchable, unquestionable for hundreds of years afterwards.
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These have generally been named after Thomas Becket.
There are at least four:
Great Tom in Tom Tower, Christchurch College, Oxford.
Great Tom in Lincoln Cathedral.
Great Tom of Westminster, replaced by Big Ben
Great Tom, the hour bell in the South West Tower of St Pauls Cathedral, London.
Tom Tower - Wikipedia
Great Tom of Lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Tom
Bells of Norton Bavant
It is quite possible,
too, that Norton Bavant has a trace of him in one of the bells,
which bears this inscription : — "Sancte Tome, ora pro nobis"
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Canterbury Cathedral: Shrine of Becket, Badges and Medals
Thomas Becket Seal: Thomas Becket had what must have been a very
impressive gem seal, again of Augustan date, depicting a
standing image of Mercury leaning against a column set in a
matrix reading: + sigillvm tome lvnd (The seal of Thomas of
London). It is only preserved on a document concerning Holy
Trinity, Aldgate dated 1162.
The Archaeological journal : British Archaeological Association. - Internet Archive
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Shrines Of Prelates And Priests: St. Thomas Of Canterbury
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The Quest for Becket's Bones: The Mystery of the Relics of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury. Yale University Press.
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The Many-Sided Career of Master Elias of Dereham
Josiah Cox Russell
Speculum
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Pilgrims steps - Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society
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16. Reconstructing the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Sarah Blick
Reconstructing the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral
Sarah Blick
Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History Vol. 72, Iss. 4, 2003
Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Becket
M. F. Hearn
The Art Bulletin , Vol. 76, No. 1 (Mar., 1994) , pp. 19-52
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New Studies on Canterbury Cathedral
L. Hoey
Avista
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Malcolm Thurlby
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Est sacra intra locus, venerabilis atque beatus
Praesul ubi sanctus Thomas est martyrizatus
Gervase, Becket, and William of Sens
Peter Kidson
Speculum
Vol. 68, No. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 969-991
Published by:
Medieval Academy of America
Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2865493
Woolley, L. (1989). Two Panels from an Orphrey Showing Scenes from the Life of St Thomas of Canterbury. Textile history, 20(2), 265-273.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/004049689793700176
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http://www.academia.edu/download/30874861/Blick.pdf
History Essays - Canterbury Cult Thomas
Canterbury Miracles and Pilgrims
Pilgrim badge - Wikipedia,
Archaeology of Thomas Becket: Portable Antiquities Scheme Badges
Paul A. Brazinski
The Post Hole
http://www.theposthole.org/sites/theposthole.org/files/downloads/posthole_23_160.pdf
Devotional medal - Wikipedia,
http://www.elfinspell.com/England/Andrews/TheChurchTreasury/PilgrimsSigns.html
http://conclarendon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/pilgrims-medallion.html
Elias of Dereham - DNB
...
Following the award of Magna Carta in 1215 Elias helped distribute the charter around the shires, becoming an enthusiastic adherent of the rebel barons and preaching their cause at St Paul’s cross in London. As a result he was despoiled of his various churches and exiled to France when the Royalist party triumphed in 1217. By 1220 he was pardoned and allowed to return to Langton’s household, assisting the construction of a new shrine to St Thomas Becket in Canterbury, in which context he is described by the chronicler Matthew Paris as an ‘incomparable artificer’.
...
Howard Loxton (1978). Pilgrimage to Canterbury. David & Charles Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7153-7508-2.
Diana Webb (2000). Pilgrimage in Medieval England. Continuum. ISBN 978-1-85285-250-4.
https://goo.gl/sgrfzu
The Wine of St. Thomas
Literae Cantuarienses: the letter books of the Monastery of Christ Church Canterbury
"When Louis VII of France made his annual grant of 1600 gallons of wine to Christ Church Priory, a fee was paid to the Mayor of Fordwych for the use of his crane in lifting the barrels from the boats. Not many years ago, at an audit of the Chapter Accounts, a yearly item of forty shillings was identified as this very fee, which has been regularly paid for centuries, after the "Wine of St. Thomas" had been consumed, discontinued, and forgotten. Whether this odd survival will more interest the historic, or shock the financial, sense of our American visitors is a question of psychology."
Paradox Place
Limoges Reliquary Châsses for Bits of Becket
Locations of some of the 40+ Limoges Becket Châsses still around
Reliquary in Louvre, Paris
Another Reliquary in Louvre
Reliquary in British Museum
Limoges casket in Glasgow Museum
http://www.oberlin.edu/images/Art336/cant-0017.JPG
Châsse de Thomas Becket
Vers 1200
H : 12,9 ; La : 12,5 ; Pr : 6,6
Limoges, musée municipal de l'Evêché [inv. 90.458]
Achat, 1990 (B. Blondeel et P. Carlier).
Châsse de Thomas Becket
Vers 1205-1215.
H. 13 ; L. 12,3 ; La 6,7.
Guéret, musée des Beaux-Arts [Inv. OA 4]
Lieu de provenance inconnu.
Déposée au musée avant 1852.
Reliquary of St. Thomas Becket. Champlevé copper, engraved, chased, enameled and gilt. Limoges, ca. 1190–1200. From Palencia, region of León, Spain.
Some reliquaries
Véronique Notin (1999). Valérie et Thomas Becket: de l'influence des princes Plantagenêt dans l'œuvre de Limoges. Musée municipal de l'Évêché-Musée de l'émail. ISBN 978-2-9506813-6-2. http://goo.gl/ilTqox
Medieval Images of the Saint Thomas Becket Story
Becket Window - Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral Bay 18: Becket
Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Leland's Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer (2008).
The Riverside Chaucer. Oxford University Press.
ISBN 978-0-19-955209-2.
Geoffrey Chaucer (2011).
The Kelmscott Chaucer. CRW Publishing, Limited.
ISBN 978-1-907360-51-0.
https://archive.org/details/worksofgeoffreyc00chau_0
Laura C. Lambdin; Robert T. Lambdin (1999).
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 1–.
ISBN 978-0-275-96629-4.
Warner, L. (2003). Becket and the Hopping Bishops. The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 17(1), 107-134.
http://brepols.metapress.com/content/bg0130h005r27412/fulltext.pdf?page=1
William Langland (1988).
Piers Plowman B Version. University of California Press. pp. 564–.
ISBN 978-0-520-06230-6.
Other Literature
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France).; Congrégation de Saint-Maur (1856). Histoire littéraire de la France: Fin du treizième siècle. chez Firmin Didot freres. pp. 367–.
The Relyk of a Seint: A Gloss on Chaucer's Pilgrimage
Daniel Knapp
ELH
Vol. 39, No. 1 (Mar., 1972), pp. 1-26
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.2307/2872288
Music
Dennis Stevens:
Music in Honour of Thomas Becket . pp 60-6
editor Herbert Waddams (1970). 1170-1970, St Thomas Becket: Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle no. 65. Friends of Canterbury Cathedral.
Thomas Gemma Cantuarie
Medieval Music Thomas gemma Cantuarie - YouTube
The Golden Legend (Saint Thomas of Canterbury) - YouTube
Bodleian Library Western manuscripts to c.1500 MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20
Music in Honor of St. Thomas of Canterbury
Denis Stevens
The Musical Quarterly
Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul., 1970), pp. 311-348
http://www.jstor.org/stable/741242
In die sancti Thome martyris
Music of the Sarum Office
The Translation of St Thomas Becket
St Thomas Becket, 'Holy Thomas of heoueriche'
St Eysteinn
St Eysteinn (again)
A Song for St Thomas Becket
England and Wales
The influence of Christianity upon national character illustrated by the lives and legends of the English saints
by Hutton, William Holden (1903) p. 240
There are or were sixty-three churches in England known to
be dedicated to S. Thomas Becket, two in Wales, and nine
monasteries, etc. Besides these, there are forty-one churches in
England dedicated to S. Thomas, of which twenty-one are dedi-
cated to S. Thomas the Martyr. Almost certainly these latter are
named after Becket, and very probably several of the former.
These figures are derived from a list drawn up by Miss Quiller
Couch after an investigation under the direction of Mr. Falconer
Madan. Miss Arnold-Forster, Church Dedications, gives 70 to
S. Thomas of Canterbury, besides which 36 ascribed to S. Thomas
Apostle are possibly S. Thomas the Martyr. He also appears
three times in double dedications. Besides this, almost every
church had a " S. Thomas altar." At S. Lawrence, Reading, this
altar was made as late as 1502.
Heytesbury Church 1220 - Hungerford
Becket's episcopal sandals (crepita = crepida) Sancti Thomae amongst its relics
The Bishop’s Register of St Osmond indicates the association of Archbishop Thomas a’Becket with Heytesbury – in c1165-70 Becket granted an indulgence to visitors or benefactors of the church, and subsequently the collegiate church there held Becket’s ecclesiastical sandals among their relics in 1220. Both these events would have assisted the church financially.
There are many churches named after Thomas Becket in Britain, including
Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth,
St Thomas à Becket Church, Pensford,
St Thomas à Becket Church, Widcombe,
Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel,
St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol and
St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford.
Stow Minster - Wikipedia
The Guild Chapel, Stratford-Upon-Avon
In 1804, a series of wall paintings was discovered during restoration works in the chapel. They were described by the antiquarian Robert Wheler, and drawn by his contemporary Thomas Fisher, although the drawings were only published in 1838. ... On the west wall, flanking the tower arch, were again two tier-images images of the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket above an allegoricalmemento mori painting of the poem ‘erthe out of erthe’, and an image of St George and the Dragon over an image of the Whore of Babylon. Sadly, despite the significance of the paintings, they were subsequently destroyed or whitewashed. It was not until 1928 that the Last Judgement, over the chancel arch, was re-exposed and ‘restored’ by the famous wall paintings expert, EW Tristram.
Church of St Thomas-a-becket
Warblington, Havant
Ledston Hall: Chapel of St. Thomas Becket
Hampsthwaite Village- The Parish Church of St Thomas a'Becket
Wymondham.-Beckets-Chapel
St. Thomas a Becket Chapel,
St. Johns
Carlton in Lindrick
The Church of St Thomas a Becket, Warblington, Hampshire
South Newington, Oxfordshire, Church & Wall Paintings
Sourton, Devon St Thomas a Becket 14th Century church.
http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/sourton-church.htm
Church of St Thomas a Becket - Bridford - Devon
Church of St Peter and St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury - Bovey Tracey - Devon
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury - Thorverton - Devon
St Thomas of Canterbury, Lapford - Devon
Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel
St.Martha on the Hill, Drake Hill, Chilworth
Originally dedicated to St. Thomas, and called
The Holy Martyr [Sancto Martyro]
A chapel and resting-place for pilgrims on the Pilgrims' Way from Southampton
"Secular canons: Cathedral of St. Paul," in A History of the County of London: Volume 1, London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1909), 409-433. British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/london/vol1/pp409-433
Samuel Pegge (1801). An historical account of Beauchief abbey J. Nichols
13th century wall painting: St Peters, Preston Park. Brighton
In " Archaeologia,'' Vol. xxiii, the Rev. Charles Townsend describes some mural paintings in this church, which are still visible. The principal subject is the murder of Thomas Becket.
Medieval Painting of the murder of St. Thomas Becket & the execution of Thomas of Lancaster, South Newington, Oxfordshire
Medieval Painting of St. Thomas Becket, Hauxton, Cambridgeshire
Medieval Painting of the Baptism of Christ & saints Peter & Paul, Black Bourton, Oxon
St Lawrence Church, Godmersham
On a wall in the chancel is a stone carved figure of an archbishop, sitting on a cushioned seat, his staff in his left hand, his right raised in benediction and showing him in the full richness of his vestments. This stone is thought to be an image of St. Thomas-a-Becket, which for several centuries was built into the window of a nearby house.
Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity... Brereton Church in the County palatine of Chester: Society of Antiquaries of London. 1789. pp. 382–.
D J Keene and Vanessa Harding, 'St. Mary
Colechurch 105/18,' in Historical Gazetteer of London Before the Great
Fire Cheapside; Parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St
Mary Le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (London:
Centre for Metropolitan History, 1987), 490-517, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-gazetteer-pre-fire/pp490-517
P. B. Roberts, Thomas Becket: the construction and deconstruction of a saint from the middle ages to the reformation (S. 1-22), widmet sich dem Becketkult bis 1538 und stellt die Gestalt des guten Hirten und nicht des Märtyrers heraus
Thomas Becket The Construction and Deconstruction of a Saint - GetInfo
MacGregor, A., & Spencer, B. (1987). An ampulla mould from Pirton, Worcestershire. Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 140(1), 194-199.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/jba.1987.140.1.194
Rye, W., & Thomas, S. (1924). Some New Facts as to the Life of St. Thomas À Becket: Tending to Show that He was... Connected... with Norfolk... Hunt.
Feast of St.Thomas Becket 29th December
http://www.fisheaters.com/customschristmasx.html
http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N10352351.pdf
The Cult of Thomas Becket and the Welsh Marches
R.W.D. Fenn
The Radnorshire Society Transactions, 1984 p. 17-
Welsh Journals Online
Heraldry and the Martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket (1)
By Cecil R Humphery-Smith, OBE, FSA, FHS
Coat of Arms No. 85, January 1971.
Martyrs on the Move: The Spread of the Cults of Thomas of ...
Becket Relics
St. Thomas' Abbey, Dublin
The Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr, near Dublin
Anthony L. Elliott
The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Fifth Series, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr., 1892), pp. 25-41
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25507862
Relations between the Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr and the Municipality of Dublin c. 1176 - 1527
Virginia Davis
Dublin Historical Record
Vol. 40, No. 2 (Mar., 1987), pp. 57-65
Published by: Old Dublin Society
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30100806
John Thomas Gilbert. Register of the Abbey of St Thomas, Dublin. Cambridge University Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-108-05339-6.
Belgium
Chasuble of Thomas Becket, 12th century, Museum voor Oudheidkunde en Sierkunst en Schone Kunsten Old Rags
Renardy Christine. Notes concernant le culte de saint Thomas Becket dans le diocèse de Liège aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire. Tome 55 fasc. 2, 1977. Histoire (depuis l'Antiquité) — Geschiedenis (sedert de Oudheid). pp. 381-389.
doi : 10.3406/rbph.1977.3142
url : /web/revues/home/prescript/article/rbph_0035-0818_1977_num_55_2_3142
France
Craig Wright (2008). Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550. Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-0-521-08834-3.
Statue of Thomas Becket in Sens Cathedral
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Statue of Thomas Becket at St. Foy in Conques
Église Saint-Thomas-de-Cantorbéry de La Neuville-Vault
Saint-Thomas-des-Champs St. Thomas l'Abattu,
To the abbey church of the Trinity [in Caen, Normandy] were attached several chapels, as well without as within its walls: the most remarkable of these was that of St. Thomas, generally known by the name of
St. Thomas l'Abattu in the suburb of St. Giles. It was, in its original state, an hospital, and was called the Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr in the fields, whence De la Rue infers that it was built in commemoration of Thomas-à-Becket, and was probably erected immediately after his canonization in 1173. Huet, on the contrary, tells us, that it had existed “from time immemorial;” and Ducarel, who has described and figured it,
[53] appears to have also regarded it as of very high antiquity. The gradual disappearance of leprosy had caused it to be long since diverted from its original purpose. In 1569, it was pillaged by the Huguenots; and, as no pains were taken to repair the injuries then done, it continued in a state of dilapidation, imperceptibly wasting away, till the period of the revolution, when it was sold, together with the other national property; and even its ruins have now disappeared.
Barfleur, Normandy
William of Canterbury "Miracles" p. 23 Vol 2 #615
...
The last but one describes the Archbishop of Rouen consecrating an altar to St. Thomas at [Saint Sauveur-le-Vicomte] Barfleur for Prince Henry, who found it possible to sail next day, after being weather-bound fifteen days: and it adds that, in a short time, many blind and lame were here healed.
...
Sommaires de divers ouvrages collectifs. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale. 22e année (n°88), Octobre-décembre 1979. pp. 437-440.
d'Esneval Amaury. Colloque international « Thomas Becket et la France » (août 1973). In: Annales de Normandie, 24e année n°2, 1974. pp. 205-207.
Saint Thomas' Surplice.
The Tablet Page 9, 11th February 1888
There are many churches named after Thomas Becket in France, including Église Saint-Thomas de Cantorbéry at
Mont-Saint-Aignan (Upper-Normandy), Église Saint-Thomas-Becket at
Gravelines (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Église Saint-Thomas Becket at
Avrieux (Rhône-Alpes), Église saint-Thomas Becket at
Bénodet (Brittany),
Église Saint-Thomas de Bénodet — Wikipédia
A Figure of St. Thomas Becket at Chartres
Clark Maines
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
36. Bd., H. 2/3 (1973), pp. 163-173
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1481845
La Chapelle St Martin, Limeuil
This 12th century chapel still has some of its original frescoes inside. The church is dedicated to Thomas Becket.
Flanders
Raoul Bauer (2000). Thomas Becket in Vlaanderen: waarheid of legende?. Stedelijke Musea Kortrijk. ISBN 978-90-71579-10-3.
http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=di070737&objnr=3062&nr=2 https://goo.gl/kf9Z8c
Germany
Paul Webster; Marie-Pierre Gelin (2016).
The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World, C.1170-c.1220. Chapter 6: Matilda, Duchess of Saxony (1168-1196) and the Cult of Becket: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 113–.
ISBN 978-1-78327-161-0.
http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-112/books/
Italy
Shaping a Saint’s Identity: The Imagery of Thomas Becket in Medieval Italy
COSTANZA CIPOLLARO and VERONIKA DECKER
http://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_kunstgeschichte/Texte/BAACant07Cip_Deck.pdf
Murder of Thomas Becket, Spoleto, Italy, late 12th-century
(in situ Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Spoleto, Italy)
San Tomaso Becket (Verona) - Wikipedia
S.Tommaso Cantuariense chiesa, Verona Italy
http://www.wikiwand.com/it/Tommaso_Becket
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Becket
The Parish of the Cathedral of Forli is dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury. In the vicinity of the Cathedral was a church, now lost, which in medieval times was a meeting place for English pilgrims on their way to Rome.
Marsala Cathedral (1628) in Sicily is dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury and built on Norman foundations dated to 1176. Thomas Becket is the patron saint of Marsala.
Church St Thomas of Chanterbury | Monuments and Places in Marsala
In the Cathedral of Anagni is the so-called Oratory of St. Thomas Becket (an ancient mithraeum transformed into a Christian oratory) located next to the famous Crypt. In it there is a precious cycle of paintings dating to the last quarter of the twelfth century, in which the holy archbishop is shown standing next to Christ blessing on the back wall and in four scenes , including one of his martyrdom, near the altar on the left wall.
In the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia Friuli is the altarpiece of Saint Thomas Becket of Canterbury, dated to about 1180, Thomas is shown to the left of Christ, while on the opposite side is St. Peter.. The role of Thomas is emphasised that he, like Christ, displays a roll explaining the church's rights.
In the church of San Giorgio di Rualis near Cividale del Friuli is a fresco of the fourteenth century in which is represented the scene of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket .
The Bolognese church of San Salvatore has a splendid wooden altarpiece by Vitale da Bologna, in which is depicted St. Thomas Becket .
In the church of San Giorgio di Rualis near Cividale del Friuli is a fresco of the fourteenth century in which is represented the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket .
porta san tomaso treviso st. thomas gate
Marca Trevigiana
http://www.marcatrevigiana.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/San-Tommaso-Becket-Museo-diocesano.jpg
The Fermo Chasuble of St. Thomas Becket and Hispano-Mauresque Cosmological Silks: Some Speculations on the Adaptive Reuse of Textiles
Annabelle Simon-Cahn
Muqarnas
Vol. 10, Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar (1993), pp. 1-5
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1523166
Mrta Jr (February 2017). The Chasuble of Thomas Becket: A Biography. Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art. ISBN 978-3-7774-2519-1.
Olivia Remie Constable (1996). Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500. Becket's Chasuble in Fermo Cathedral: Cambridge University Press. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-0-521-56503-5.
Chiesa di San Thomas Becket
Fidenza
Croatia [Former Yugoslavia]
Cathedral of Sveti Stošija [St. Anastasia], Zadar Crypt 13th century fresco of St. Thomas Becket, [fresco almost entirely destroyed].
Korčula, Opatijska Riznica [Cathedral/abbey Treasury] Room 2
Item B3 Nottingham alabaster 2nd half 15th century Head of St. John the Baptist, St. Peter and St. Thomas Becket.
[There are two other Nottingham alabasters in same museum.]
Portugal
Cult of Becket in Tomar
Rotunda of the Convento de Cristo
http://templanima.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/dia-29-todos-charolaevocar-stomas-o.html
Aspects of Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the Twelfth Century. Manuscripts, Relics, Decretals and the Cult of St Thomas Becket at Lorvão, Alcobaça and Tomar
Anne J. Duggan
Portuguese Studies
Vol. 14, (1998), pp. 1-19
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41105078
Sicily
http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art288.htm
Spain
Siguenza Cathedral
What is now the Chapel of St. Catherine was dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury by the English Bishop Jocelin.
Etelvina Fernández González; Fernando Galván Freile; Ana I.. Suárez González (2013). Tomás Becket y la Península Ibérica (1170-1230). Universidad de León, Área de Publicaciones. ISBN 978-84-9773-653-4.
St Thomas Becket consagrations, death and burial, at wall paintings in Santa Maria de Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain, romanesque frescoes, ca. 1200
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/TomasBecket-Terrassa.jpg/200px-TomasBecket-Terrassa.jpg
An Anglo-Norman at Terrassa? Augustinian Canons and Thomas Becket
at the End of 12th century
Carles Sánchez Márquez
Francesca Español, Francesc Fité (eds.).
"GALVÁN FREILE, Fernando (2008): “Culto e iconografía de Tomás de Canterbury en la Península Ibérica (1173-1300)". Hagiografia peninsular en els segles medievals. Universitat de Lleida. pp. 197–.
ISBN 978-84-8409-357-2.
Iglesia de San Miguel de Almazán
AGORABEN
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Sant Tomàs Becket i el programa iconogràfic de les pintures murals de Santa Maria de Terrassa
by Milagros Guàrdia
ddd.uab.cat-pub-locus-11359722n4p37.pdf
Alcabón
Iglesia de Santo Tomás Cantuariense (Alcabón)
Salamanca
Iglesia de Santo Tomás Cantuariense (Salamanca) - Wikipedia,
SANTO TOMAS CANTUARIENSE - SALAMANCA - Carmen Baena Yerón
Dosbarrios
Iglesia -Santo Tomas Cantuariense-
Toro
Photos of Santo Tomás Cantuariense Church - Images
Iglesia de Santo Tomás Cantuariense (Toro) - Wikipedia
Sweden
Constitutions of Clarendon Wooden Carving of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral
Martyrdom of Thomas Becket on reliquary in Trönö new church, Hälsingland
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7909590@N08/6229578083/
Constitutions of Clarendon The Baptismal Font at Lyngsjö Church in Skåne
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Björsäter
Andreas Lindblom, Björsätersmålningarna: The Legends of St. Thomas Becket and of the Holy Cross painted in a Swedish Church, Stockholm 1953
The Guardian, Jun 5th, 1950. St. Thomas Becket in Sweden, Medieval Paintings on Wood.
Norway
St. Tomaskirken - Norges Kirker
St Thomas's Church. The altar in the medieval church in Gildeskål may conceal relics of St Thomas.
Tromsø museums aarshefter 1908
Altarpiece from the old church in Lurøy from Catholic times,
and is now kept in the Bergen Museum.
St. Thomas episcopus is the leftmost figure.
Within the church there is also a reliquary, made of wood in the shape of a miniature church (called a chasse) with gilt-brass mountings and with scenes from the Bible and the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, possibly a clue as to whose relics the reliquary was originally made to contain.
Denmark
Vor Frue Kirke - Skive
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vor_Frue_Kirke_(Skive_Kommune)
http://www.kalkmalerier.dk/index.php
Hungary
Thomas a Becket and Hungary
György Györffy
Angol Filológiai Tanulmányok / Hungarian Studies in English
Vol. 4, (1969), pp. 45-52
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41261583
Reliquaries
Caudron, Simone. "Les Châsses de Thomas Becket en émail de Limoges."
Actes Du Colloque International de Sedieres. Editions Beauchesne. pp. 233–.
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Reliquary châsse plaque: Crucifixon and St. Thomas Becket, copper gilt and enamel, Master G. Alpais and workshop (French), c.1220-1225, CMA 1951.449
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/228698487298445257/
Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, ca. 1173–80 English or German Silver with niello, gemstone
Metropolitan Museum New York
Salisbury, John Of. "A Reliquary Of Saint Thomas Becket Made For."
http://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3253544.pdf.bannered.pdf
Saint Thomas Becket - Saints and Martyrs - Treasures of Heaven
French_Martyrdom of Thomas Becket
Châsses de saint Thomas Becket — Wikipédia
John Philip O'Neill; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1996).
"Chasse of Saint Thomas Becket". Enamels of Limoges: 1100-1350. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 162–.
ISBN 978-0-87099-758-7.
Museo della Cattedrale di Lucca
http://www.luccaterre.it/immagini/big/MUS/MUS_F0133/MUS_F0133_B.jpg
Plaque showing murder of St Thomas Becket - unknown - V&A
Reliquary of St. Thomas Becket. Champlevé copper, engraved, chased, enameled and gilt. Limoges, ca. 1190–1200. From Palencia, region of León, Spain. Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, France.
Link
Courtauld institute London
Iceland
Thómas saga erkibyskups : a life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic
Preface pp v - clxxv
The Icelandic Thomas saga stands in a relation of
unique interest to English history and literature. It
was in existence at a remarkably short period after
the Archbishop's death. It soon exercised an influence
nothing short of momentous on the relations between
Church and State in Iceland. It secured for the name of
St. Thomas a popularity which eclipsed that of every
other saint, save the Virgin Mary.
In the Middle- Organ Swapping in Medieval Iceland- quot lectores, tot sententiae, I hope
Kay Brainerd Slocum (2004).
Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket.
Iceland: University of Toronto Press. pp. 125–.
ISBN 978-0-8020-3650-6.
Aitchison, B. (2009). Holy cow!: the miraculous cures of animals in late medieval England 1. European Review of History—Revue européenne d'histoire,16(6), 875-892
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13507480903368145#preview
The Holy Land
Forey, Alan J. "The military order of St Thomas of Acre." The English Historical Review 92.CCCLXIV (1977): 481-503.
http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/XCII/CCCLXIV/481.extract
Switzerland
Thomas Tower Basel
Stained Glass Windows in French Cathedrals
heroes-and-traitors-the-life-of-st-thomas-becket-in-french-stained-glass-windows
Sens
Sens Cathedral Stained Glass - Bay 23 Key (St Thomas Becket)
Claire Pernuit, « Entre texte et image, enquête sur les vitraux historiés du xiiie siècle de la cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens », Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre | BUCEMA [En ligne], 14 | 2010, mis en ligne le 18 mai 2010. URL : http://cem.revues.org/11639 ; DOI : 10.4000/cem.11639
Angers
Angers Cathedral Stained Glass - Bay 108a Key (The Life of St Thomas Becket)
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/Angers/Bay_108a/Angers_Bay108a_Panel08.htm
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/France/North_&_Centre/Angers/Angers.htm
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/France/North_&_Centre/Angers/Images/800/Becket-Dies-Sept07-D6623sAR.jpg
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/France/North_&_Centre/Angers/Images/800/Henry-vBecket-Sept07-D6609s.jpg
Coutances
Coutances cathedral stained glass
Chartres
Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass - Bay 18 Key (Life of St Thomas Becket)
Becket Window - Chartres Cathedral
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/Chartres/18_pages/Chartres_Bay18_key.htm
Les vitraux de la cathédrale de Chartres. Reliques et images
Persée - Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales
Bayeux Cathedral, France
The south transept external portal of Bayeux cathedral, the dean's portal, which dates from c. 1255-1280, faces a public thoroughfare, and is sculpted with scenes from the life of St. Thomas Becket. The lowest lintel shows a large assembly of persons witnessing Becket before the King [his trial at Northampton perhaps?]. The next lintel shows scenes, from left to right, Becket crossing over the sea from France to England, his return to Canterbury, and his murder before an altar. The topmost tympanum shows King Henry II visiting the tomb of Becket after his canonization. Becket had visited Bayeux during his exile from England, and one of the attempted reconciliations between him and Henry II had taken place at the Cathedral.
Manuscripts
The Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket (Getty Museum)
Internet History Sourcebooks
The Golden Legend: St. Thomas Becket
The Becket Leaves
http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/becketleaves/index.html
Janet Backhouse; Christopher De Hamel; British Library (1988).
The Becket leaves. British Library.
ISBN 978-0-7123-0141-1.
Suzanne Lewis (1987). The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora. University of California Press. pp. 87–9. ISBN 978-0-520-04981-9.
Helene E. Roberts (2013). Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. "Sanctuary": Routledge. pp. 783–90. ISBN 978-1-136-78793-5.
The Murder of Thomas Becket -hgv Hong Kong
Food
JISCMail - MEDIEVAL-RELIGION Archives - http://goo.gl/ooIswB
Other Thomas Becket images:
The Martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Fresco in the Museo Diocesano from Palazzo dei Trecento, Treviso, Veneto, Italy, c.1260
Gerald of Wales
In 1189 Gerald of of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis] wrote that the success, importance and fortune of the Becket cult had been long foretold of by an ancient Welsh prophet and magician, Merlin Celidonius or Silvestris (Merlin of Scotland or Merlin of the Woods), whom he claimed was the real life Merlin of the King Arthur stories.
"Venient oratores ab oriente, et terrarum tam principes quam primates in occiduis oceani finibus novi vestigia martyris adorabunt."
Pilgrims from the East shall come, and on the western margins of the great sea, the princes and primates of the earth shall reverence the relics of a new martyr.
Article: Thomas Becket, Cult of by Anne Duggan
[British Library Open Access Shelves - Humanities 1 Reading Room HLR 291.446]
Gerald claimed that he had translated and hope to publish Merlin's Book of Prophecies (Vaticinalis historia 3 vols) containing a description of the king of England, Henry II, and his conquest of Ireland, a manuscript preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge.
Anglo-Norman Studies 31
Gerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin pp. 90-103
By Ad Putter
Gerald of Wales - Wikipedia
Translation of Thomas Becket 7 July 1220
Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket
KAY BRAINERD SLOCUM
Chapter Eight: Office for the Translation of St Thomas Becket, 7 July
Reconstructing and Interpreting a Thirteenth-Century Office for the Translation of Thomas Becket
Sherry L. Reames
Speculum
Vol. 80, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 118-170
"PASTOR BONUS": MATTHEW PARIS'S LIFE OF STEPHEN LANGTON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (1207-28)
Brenda Bolton
Nederlands archief voor kerkgeschiedenis / Dutch Review of Church History
Vol. 84, (2004), pp. 57-70
Le Jubilé de Saint Thomas Becket du xiii e au xv e siècle (1220— 1470): by Raymonde Foreville
The Journal of Theological Studies
New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (October 1960), pp. 422-423
Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23954278
Vier Jacques. Raymonde Foreville. — Le Jubilé de saint Thomas Becket du XIIIe au XVe siècle (1220-1470). Préface de S. Exe. Mgr Joseph- Marie Martin, archevêque de Rouen, Annales de Bretagne, 1960, vol. 67, n° 3, pp. 309-312.
Chaplais Peter. Foreville (Raymonde). Le jubilé de saint Thomas Becket du XIIIe au XVe siècle (1220-1470)., Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 1960, vol. 38, n° 3, pp. 889-890.
Foreville Raymonde. Le jubilé de Saint Thomas Becket du XIIIe au XVe siècle (1220-1470). Étude et documents . In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire 1956-1957. 1955. pp. 78-80.
doi : 10.3406/ephe.1955.20288
url :
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Robert Odell Bork; William W. Clark; Abby McGehee (2011).
New Approaches to Medieval Architecture. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 101–.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2228-0.
Thomas Becket and France by Robert Franklin (1991) ISBN 978-0-9513476-1-4
Miscellaneous
The Carthusian house at Witham was built with funds given by Henry II as part of his penance for Thomas Becket's murder.
Houses of Carthusian monks: The priory of Witham',
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2 (1911), pp. 123-128.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40929
Witham, Somerset: From Carthusian Monastery to Country House to Gothic Folly
Robert Wilson-North and Stephen Porter
Architectural History
Vol. 40, (1997), pp. 81-98
Published by: SAHGB Publications Limited
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1568667
The monastic patronage of King Henry II in England, 1154-1189
Thomas Becket Visuals compiled by John
Dillon
Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas Becket; d. 1170). A Londoner, Thomas was successively archdeacon of Canterbury, chancellor of
England under Henry II, and (from 1162) archbishop of Canterbury. In the latter post, his defence of ecclesiastical rights
soon led to a falling out with Henry and to Thomas' withdrawal to France, where he remained until 1170. His return to
Canterbury in that year had papal backing but only grudging acceptance from the king. The two were still quite
unreconciled when Thomas was assassinated in his cathedral on 29. December 1170 by knights who thought that they were
doing Henry a favor. Thomas' life of penitence and self-mortification while archbishop contributed to his image as a
saintly martyr. He was canonized in 1173 and Vitae (with miracle accounts) soon followed.
Kay Brainerd Slocum's _Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket_ (University of Toronto Press,
2004) has a useful chapter (pp. 98-126) on the spread of Thomas' cult.
The chiesa di San Giorgio in Como has a reliquary case housing
what is said to be part of Thomas' chin and some bones said to be those of St.
Eutichius of Como. Three views
follow:
http://tinyurl.com/623ecv
http://tinyurl.com/64acjh
http://tinyurl.com/5vf2gv
The certificate from 1777 of a recognition of these relics:
http://www.iubilantes.it/archivio/index.php?sel=7&idfoto=256
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Te Sente Thomas van Cantelberghe, in Inghelant ... Pelgrimsinsignes en pelgrimstochten naar Thomas Becket
Author(s):Koldeweij,
A.M.Publication year:2000
In:Thomas Becket in Vlaanderen. Waarheid of legende? pp. 49 -72
Publisher:Kortrijk : Stedelijke Musea Kortrijk
Further visuals for Thomas of Canterbury:
a) Christ Church cathedral, Canterbury (Kent):
Site of T.'s martyrdom:
http://www.rozspringer.com/images/CanterburyCathedral.jpg
Becket window 4 (ca. 1215-1220):
http://tinyurl.com/y99wacy
A pilgrim's badge in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York showing the saint's shrine prior to its destruction in the sixteenth century:
http://tinyurl.com/cag8u2l
http://worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000022433.html
Pilgrim's badges for visits to this shrine have survived in some number. See the examples on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/cyjz9fp
d) Thomas of Canterbury (center) in the late twelfth-century apse mosaics of the basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova, Monreale:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2575093180_0101779142_b.jpg
e) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a late twelfth-century wall painting in the iglesia de San Nicolás in Soria (Castilla y León). The painting is exceptional in that it shows Thomas being stabbed in the back rather than struck in the head or the neck (for another instance, see below at item e
g) A late twelfth-century reliquary casket (châsse) with scenes of Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/27s42cx
h) Some of the numerous Becket reliquary châsses made at Limoges in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries:
1) Ornamental reliquary châsse (ca. 1180) with scenes of the martyrdom, now in the British Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/3ykvus6
2) Another (ca. 1180-1190) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/d2f92tt
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Becket_casket.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/c6lz8gz
3) Two more (ca. 1190-1200 or a little later), now in the Musée national du Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny), Paris:
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/ang/pages/page_id18020_u1l2.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3xmjq6b
and
http://tinyurl.com/2uvzkvj
Other views of these are on the page linked to at 9) below.
4) Another (ca. 1200), now at Limoges, Musée municipal de l'Évêché:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/thomas1.htm
5) Another (ca. 1200), now in the Museum Schnütgen (St. Cäcilien), Köln:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2127843870_2dcb1823bb_o.jpg
6) Another (ca. 1205-1215), now in the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (musée des Beaux-Arts), Guéret (Creuse):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/thomas2.htm
7) Another (ca. 1210), now in the Musée des beaux-arts in Lyon:
http://tinyurl.com/35c4jgs
8) Another (earlier thirteenth-century), now at Lucca, in the Museo della Cattedrale di Lucca (Museo diocesano), in the second view seen through tinted glass:
http://www.scuola.com/arte_storia/arte_becket/imgs/scheda_lucca.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3837386490_88c39bba7c_o.jpg
Rear and side views of this object are shown toward the bottom of the page linked to at 9) below.
9) Other Becket reliquary châsses are shown here (images begin about a fifth of the way down the page):
http://tinyurl.com/9jz8ll
10) A plaque from such a reliquary châsse (late twelfth-century), now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/3a362o7
11) Yet another such plaque (ca. 1220-1222), now in the Cleveland Museum of Art (the second photograph is by Genevra Kornbluth):
http://www.oberlin.edu/images/Art336/cant-0017.JPG
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/CMAThos.jpg
i) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed in a copper gilt relief of ca. 1200 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin:
http://tinyurl.com/3o5ugnz
n) An early thirteenth-century liturgical comb from England with Becket scenes, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/2c83czx
r) Genevra Kornbluth has a page of views of twelfth- and thirteenth-century liturgical vestments said to have been worn by Becket while at Sens and now in display in the cathedral treasury there (do we know when these were first associated with him?):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/VestmentsBecket.html
s) The Becket Leaves (a thirteenth-century illustrated rhymed Passio of Thomas of Canterbury in French):
www.angelfire.com/pa4/becketleaves/
t) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a thirteenth-century fresco in Pavia's chiesa di San Lanfranco:
http://tinyurl.com/2fpwrmp
v) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 81r):
http://tinyurl.com/ybuwf3e
w) An expandable view of Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 12v):
http://tinyurl.com/387oxxd
z) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (1st or 2d quarter; attrib. to the Maître de Fauvel) copy of a French-language collection of saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 195v):
http://tinyurl.com/yjwgs9y
aa) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (2d quarter) copy of a French-language collection of saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 87r):
http://tinyurl.com/ye8n7nu
bb) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century (1348) copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol 26v):
http://tinyurl.com/ybd8l4g
cc) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed in a fourteenth-century roof boss in the Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter:
http://tinyurl.com/ybwmumk
dd) Thomas of Canterbury (third row from the top, second from left) as depicted in one of twenty-six window panels (ca. 1400) from the Marienkirche in Wismar (Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) re-mounted in the same city's Kirche Heiligen Geist:
http://tinyurl.com/c8ey5rw
ee) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century (ca. 1414) breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 226v):
http://tinyurl.com/cfa89cy
Nottingham Alabasters
ii) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a later fifteenth-century (ca. 1450-1500) alabaster panel now in the British Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/ykujtkj
ll) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a later fifteenth-century (ca. 1480-1490) copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 244, fol. 29bisv):
http://tinyurl.com/ycv83qp
Other Items
Site Name: St Thomas's Well (Canterbury)
Latitude: 51.278718N Longitude: 1.082791E
The Translation of Thomas Becket - In Thirteenth Century England.
Sutton, A. F.. (2008). The Hospital of St Thomas of Acre of London: The Search for Patronage, Liturgical improvement, and a school, under Master John Neel, 1420–63. In C. Burgess & M. Heale (Eds.),
The Late Medieval English College and its Context (NED - New edition, pp. 199–229). Boydell & Brewer. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdjps.16
The Military Order of St Thomas of Acre
A. J. Forey
The English Historical Review
Vol. 92, No. 364 (Jul., 1977), pp. 481-503
Published by: Oxford University Press
Graboïs Aryeh. Louis VII pèlerin. In: Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France. Tome 74. N°192, 1988. pp. 5-22.
Anne J. Duggan: Canterbury - The Becket Effect
Marie-Pierre Gelin: The Citizens of Canterbury and the Cult of St Thomas Becket
Martine Yvernault: Reading History in Enamel - The Journey of Thomas Becket's Experience from Canterbury to Limoges
Musset Lucien. Thomas Becket et la Normandie. In: Annales de Normandie, 24e année n°2, 1974. p. 208.
Fournée Jean. Les lieux de culte de Saint Thomas Becket en Normandie. In: Annales de Normandie, 45e année n°4, 1995. pp. 377-392.
Marc'Hadour Germain. La confrontation Becket-Henri II comme paradigme historique. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale. 37e année (n°145-146), Janvier-juin 1994. Henri II Plantagenêt et son temps. Actes du Colloque de Fontevraud. 29 septembre – 1er octobre 1990. pp. 101-110.
Colloque international de Sédières, 19-24 août 1973
Chapter List
The French manuscripts of the Becket correspondence.
Duggan, Anne J.. • p. 1-7
La "Thomaïde", poème latin inédit consacré à Thomas Becket (Troyes, Bibl. mun. 990).
Vernet, André. • p. 9-25
Les Vies latines de saint Thomas Becket et son exil en France.
Straeten, Joseph van der. • p. 28-40
Les premières relations entre le monastère de Pontigny et la royauté anglaise.
Bautier, Robert-Henri. • p. 41-48
Henri II, Thomas Becket et les Cisterciens.
Dimier, Anselme. • p. 49-53
Thomas Becket et la canonisation de saint Bernard.
Bodart, Didier • Bodart, Rosa • Bredero, Adriaan Hendrik. • p. 55-62
I rapporti tra Tommaso Becket ed i legati pontifici Bernardo di Porto, Giovanni di Sutri e Guillermo di Pavia in terra di Francia.
Lunghi, Gemma. • p. 63-69
Bishop John and archdeacon Richard of Poitiers. Their roles in the Becket dispute and its aftermath.
Duggan, Charles. • p. 71-83
Thomas Becket et les Victorians.
Châtillon, Jean. • p. 89-101
L'idéal de la royauté biblique dans la pensée de Thomas Becket.
Graboïs, Aryeh. • p. 103-110
La survivance de saint Thomas becket à travers son quatrième successeur, Etienne Langton.
Esneval, Amaury d'. • p. 111-114
Les répercussions de la mort de Thomas Becket en Pologne (XIIe-XIIIe siècles).
Uruszczak, Waclaw. • p. 115-125, 133
Le culte de saint Thomas Becket en Normandie. Enquête sur les sanctuaires anciennement placés sous le vocable du martyr de Canterbury.
Foreville, Raymonde. • p. 135-152
Le culte de saint Thomas Becket dans les diocèse de la province de Tours.
Martin, Henri. • p. 153-158
Les sanctuaires dédiés à saint Thomas de Cantorbéry en Limousin.
Becquet, Jean. • p. 159-161
Le culte de saint Thomas Becket en France. Bilan provisoire des recherches.
Foreville, Raymonde. • p. 163-187
Some notes on the two resting places of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury.
Urry, William. • p. 195-209
Enquête sur l'iconographie et le mobilier de Thomas Becket en Normandie.
Larue, Arlette. • p. 211-219
Thomas Becket dans le vitrail français au début du XIIIe siècle.
Brisac, Catherine. • p. 221-231
Les châsses de Thomas Becket en émail de Limoges.
Caudron, Simone. • p. 233-245
Le meurtre dans la cathédrale, thème iconographique médiéval.
Gauthier, Marie-Madeleine. • p. 247-254
Some new material for the study of the iconography of St. Thomas Becket.
Newton, Peter A.. • p. 255-263
Some medieval English representations of St. Thomas Becket in France.
Dickinson, John Compton. • p. 265-274
Thomas Becket et la musique médiévale.
Stevens, Denis. • p. 277-284
Le mythe littéraire de Thomas Becket à l'époque moderne.
Grassin, Jean-Marie. • p. 285-297
ICELANDIC PILGRIMS TO THE TOMB OF BECKET.
RELICS OF DECORATIVE PAINTING NOW OR FORMERLY IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
NOTE ON "RELICS OP PAINTING IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
Memorable Tuesdays
Reames, S. L. (2005). Reconstructing and interpreting a thirteenth-century office for the translation of Thomas Becket. Speculum, 80(01), 118-170.
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| St Thomas Becket - Gloucester Cathedral |
Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv Band 80 (1960) pp. 97-166
Barth, Medard: Zum Kult des hl. Thomas Becket im deutschen Sprachgebiet, in Skandinavien und Italien,
Martyrdom of Becket South Porch Chartres Cathedral
Elgin Cathedral (Ruin)
The chapel in Elgin cathedral's northern transept [Dunbar Aisle] was dedicated to St Thomas Becket.
Crusader Church in Tyre:
Bikai, Patricia M. "A New Crusader Church in Tyre." Bulletin du Musée de Beyrouth 24 (1971): 83-90.
The life and martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket by John Morris, Published
1885
Note O: Memorials and Relics of Saint Thomas pp. 606-
Chapter XXXVII: Kindred and Memorials pp. 505-
Contains Pictures of Becket's Mitre and Amice
Thomas Becket's embroidered apparel of the amice (detail), produced in the 12th century
Mitre from the Abbey of Seligenthal, Bavaria, 12th century Byzantine silk with 13th century English embroidery (opus Anglicanum), showing the martyrdom of St. Thomas a Becket
Cope's depicting Becket
Processional Cross of Catherine of Braganza
Processional cross of Catarina de Bragança containing relics of St.Thomas Becket 1664
Vila Viçosa Inv PDVV 1165. Portugal
The Processional Cross of the Chapel of Catherine of Braganza
Augusto Cardoso Pinto
The Burlington Magazine
Vol. 99, No. 648 (Mar., 1957), pp. 76-78
Published by: Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd.
Kuzmová, S. (2010). Preaching Saint Stanislaus (Doctoral dissertation, Central European University).
Discusses in part that the Cult of Saint Stanislaus of Poland depended in part on the Cult of St. Thomas Becket.
https://goo.gl/TrBF2J
Kuzmová, S. (2008). Preaching On Martyr-Bishops In The Later Middle Ages: Saint Stanislaus Of Kraków And Saint Thomas Becket. In Britain and Poland-Lithuania (pp. 65-86). Brill.
Paul Webster; 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.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1gr7cmf
D&Avray, D. (1993). Thomas Becket in the Medieval Latin Preaching Tradition. An inventory of sermons about St Thomas Becket c. 1170–1400.. By RobertsPhillis B.. (Instrumenta Patristica, xxv.) Pp. 270. The Hague: Nijhoff International, 1992. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 44(1), 118-119. doi:10.1017/S0022046900010320
Donald T. Williams “The Shrine of St. Thomas A’ Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Sonnet 85" (poem), in
Christianity and Literature 48:1 (Autumn, 1998): 131.
British Library EThOS: Music, politics, and sanctity : the cult of Thomas Becket, 1170-1580
Brian Spencer (1998). Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-11-290574-5.
Brian Spencer (2010). Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-544-8.
Sarah Blick (2007). Beyond Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges: Essays in Honour of Brian Spencer. Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-84217-235-3.
Michael Mitchiner (1988). Jetons, Medalets & Tokens: The medieval period and Nuremberg. Seaby. ISBN 978-1-85264-036-1.
John Steane (20 May 2003). The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy. Routledge. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-1-134-64159-8.
Elizabeth Fowler (2003). Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing. Cornell University Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 0-8014-4116-1.
Michael Mitchiner (1986). Medieval Pilgrim and Secular Badges. Hawkins Publications. ISBN 978-0-904173-19-2.
Construire un recueil de miracles : les Miracula sancti Thomae Cantuariensis de Benoît de PeterboroughRaymonde Foreville, "Les Miracula S, Thomae Cantuariensis", Actes du 97e Congrès national des Sociétés savantes, Nantes 1972, Paris : Bibliothèque Nationale, 1979, p. 443-468 - Persée
Title: The marketing of the holy dead in the High Middle Ages : with special reference to England and the cult of St Thomas Becket
Author: Rogers, Emma.
Awarding Body: University of Reading
Date of Award: 2004
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408332
Sacro Speco
St Stephen, St Thomas and St Nicholas, detail from a 13th century fresco
of a lunette of the Lower Church of Sacro Speco Monastery, Subiaco.
Italy, 13th century.
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/154711983
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Pilgrim's badge
Ivory
Textiles
Opus Anglicanum - The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery
Riggisberg: Museum, Abegg-Stiftung, Switzerland
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/view.php?record_no=794
Thomas à Becket: Scene, Departure from Northampton
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/gallery.php?subject=375
Thomas à Becket: Scene, reconciled with King
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/gallery.php?subject=376
Thomas à Becket: Scene, returning to England
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/gallery.php?subject=378
Thomas à Becket: Scene, as Chancellor to Henry II
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/gallery.php?subject=379
Thomas à Becket: Scene, Consecration
Victoria and Albert Museum London
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/gallery.php?subject=417
Thomas à Becket: Scene, before Pope Alexander III
Others
http://ica.princeton.edu/opus-anglicanum/gallery.php?subject=126
Thomas à Becket: murdered before High Altar (Martyrdom)
Burlington Magazine Volume XXIII 1913 Aug-Sep p. 263-
The Mitre and Tiara inHeraldry and Ornament
Anagni, Cathedral of S. Maria, Mitre of St Thomas Becket
St. Nicholas Church, Barfreston, Kent
St. Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket and Wales
Welsh History Review
https://journals.library.wales/view/1073091/1074978/377#?xywh=-1013%2C63%2C4312%2C3209
The Cult of St Thomas Becket in the Plantagenet World, c.1170-c.1220
Paul Webster
Marie-Pierre Gelin
Copyright Date: 2016
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by:
Boydell Press,
Boydell and Brewer
Pages: 270
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1gr7cmf
Leonor Plantagenet and the Cult of Thomas Becket in Castile
(pp. 133-146)
A Special Collection: John of Salisbury's Relics of Saint Thomas Becket and Other HolyMartyrs
Author(s): Karen Bollermann and Cary J. Nederman
Source: Mediaevistik, Vol. 26 (2013), pp. 163-181
Published by: Peter Lang AG
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24615853
https://www.academia.edu/120481992/The_Cult_of_Thomas_Becket
Becket's shrine, built in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral and dedicated in 1220, was one of the most opulent structures in medieval Europe. Its design:
The Base
A rectangular pink marble base, about 7 feet high, 7 feet long, and 3 feet wide, with arched niches in the sides where pilgrims could kneel and pray [British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/why-did-they-move-thomas-beckets-bones) — pressing close to the tomb itself.
The golden casket ("feretory")
On top sat a golden casket made under master craftsmen Walter of Colchester and Elias of Dereham — gold plate covered in a mesh of gold wire, onto which gemstones and jewelry donated from across Europe were attached.
[British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/why-did-they-move-thomas-beckets-bones)
It took a gabled form, encrusted with jewels on a trellis-like background, and was topped with two model ships.
[The Metropolitan Museum of Art] (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473470)
The prize piece was the Regale of France, a huge red gem on the south face, given by the French king Philip Augustus.
[British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/why-did-they-move-thomas-beckets-bones)
How it was seen
It wasn't left on permanent display. A wooden canopy covered the shrine, and the presiding canon would pull a rope over a pulley to lift the canopy and reveal the riches beneath
[Canterbury-archaeology](https://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/becket-shrine-trinity-chapel) — a dramatic reveal for pilgrims. Recent research adds another layer: iron grilles enclosed the shrine, hung with offerings pilgrims left in thanks for miraculous cures, so it was viewed "through a curtain of proof" of Becket's power, enhancing the mystery in the candlelit chapel.
[Kent Online](https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/800-year-old-tomb-brought-back-to-life-229898/)
Scale and Fate
The shrine drew as many as 100,000 visitors a year, and within a decade of Becket's death over 700 healing miracles had already been recorded there.
[Smithsonian Magazine](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-digitally-reconstruct-thomas-beckets-lost-canterbury-cathedral-shrine-180975280/) It stood until 1538, when Henry VIII's commissioners plundered it, carting away over twenty-five cartloads of gold and silver. [The
Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473470) Today the site is marked only by a single burning candle and stone paving worn smooth by kneeling pilgrims.
[Canterbury-archaeology](https://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/becket-shrine-trinity-chapel)
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