tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post877279219122437579..comments2020-08-22T19:58:02.811+01:00Comments on Constitutions of Clarendon: Order to Arrest Becket, December 1170Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post-46239300203764805622014-02-01T17:01:24.874+00:002014-02-01T17:01:24.874+00:00Another reference
Twelfth Century Decretal Collec...Another reference<br /><br />Twelfth Century Decretal Collections and their importance in English History. By CHARLES DUGGAN. University of London Historical Studies XII. The Athlone Press.<br /><br />http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/10th-august-1963/9/books-of-the-week<br /><br />CJD (Jim) Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291978136120949008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post-83565292509735224632014-02-01T16:45:30.792+00:002014-02-01T16:45:30.792+00:00Another relevant paper is the following
Henry II ...Another relevant paper is the following<br /><br />Henry II and the Papacy, 1170-1189<br />by Henry Mayr-Harting<br />The Journal of Ecclesiastical History Volume 16 Issue 01 April 1965, pp 39-53.<br />http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900053392<br /><br />CJD (Jim) Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291978136120949008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post-37211999020066563432014-01-29T23:03:41.904+00:002014-01-29T23:03:41.904+00:00Yet more
http://www.historyextra.com/feature/king...Yet more<br /><br />http://www.historyextra.com/feature/king-and-his-castle-how-henry-ii-rebuilt-his-reputation<br /><br />http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/williamnewburgh-becket1.html<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_1173%E2%80%9374<br /><br />CJD (Jim) Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291978136120949008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post-72172834958400396452014-01-29T15:16:24.183+00:002014-01-29T15:16:24.183+00:00Additonally.
In terms of what happened following ...Additonally.<br /><br />In terms of what happened following the murder, Becket won the hearts and minds of the ordinary people of England. The church exploited the miracles which supposedly surrounded his martyrdom. The people loved this. Canterbury became extremely rich as the international centre of the Cult of Becket. Becket's Cult very definitely spread to most of Scandinavia and Iceland, and Norman Sicily, and Normandy. I have yet to research just how far.<br /><br />A very large number of hagiographies and biographies followed the slaughter of Becket in his cathedral, many, many more than might be expected for the average saint of the times. Becket was an extremely well-known celebrity in his day. It is almost certain he exploited his celebrity status during his lifetime.<br /><br />King Henry II was forced to compromise with the church [Compromise of Avranches 1172]. He was flogged by the monks of Canterbury before the tomb of Becket.<br /><br />Henry II, on the 21 May 1172, was flogged in public, naked, before the door of the cathedral at Avranches upon the Pope's Orders:<br />And again in 1174 he was flogged before the tomb of Becket at Canterbury.<br />http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-WonderfulProdigies/pages/p112-King-henry-Whipped/<br /><br />Henry II was absolutely to submit to the Pope in all spiritual matters.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_Avranches.<br /><br />But this was also mixed up with Henry's troubles with his family, wars with his sons and estranged wife and queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.<br /><br />Pope Alexander III was a far superior politician in his times to Becket. His diplomatic skills have to be admired even today.<br /><br />The empires and powers in Western Europe have to be taken into account: The Holy Roman Empire, The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, The Kingdom of France, The Angevin Empire (an Kingdom of England), the emerging visigothic kingdoms of Spain, Navarre and Portugal. And of course the Papal States.<br /><br />A very deep analysis of the events of the time might wish to relate the Becket story and its aftermath with the Crusades, and realtions of Western Christendom with Eastern Christendom, though I think that is stretching historical imagination too far.<br /><br />Further down the line the Becket story demonstrates the limits of power and authority that the kingship of England had. William the Conqueror was perhaps and ruled as an absolute monarch, absolute in every sense. A succession of influential archbishops of Canterbury helped to show just how limited this power was: Lanfranc, the intellect and his hugely influential power behind the throne of William I. And then Anselm the philosophical and perhaps reluctant archbishop who opposed two kings, and then the other archbishops before Becket; including the warring over the primacy of Canterbury over York. And all this later followed by Stephen Langton and the composition of Magna Carta in 1215, and the bringing of king John to book. Or even later still the example of Simon de Montfort, and the rise of Parliament. The suppression of church power beginning with the laws of Mortmain. I will not not speculate further beyond this.<br />CJD (Jim) Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291978136120949008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post-55724393768748708532014-01-29T15:12:50.289+00:002014-01-29T15:12:50.289+00:00Thank you for your comment.
Oh my gosh, your ques...Thank you for your comment.<br /><br />Oh my gosh, your question would probably require a full Ph.D. thesis to answer properly! This blog is a "work in progress", and I haven't quite yet reached that point where I could respond to your enquiry satisfactorily. The blog is not yet complete, nor concluded. Further this blog is not "peer-reviewed", so there has to be a warning label on the knowledge which I have posted in it as information which I have reasearched and found out, but which has not been submitted for professional or full academic criticism. Becket's story fascinates me as one of the most interesting to be found in the Middle Ages. That is why I have invested a huge amount of effort in posting what I have done to date.<br /><br />Perhaps I can direct you to some other scholars and historians who may be able to help you to answer your question more competently.<br /><br />One of the very best scholars and historians of Becket is Professor Anne J. Duggan. She has written a very comprehensive modern biography on Becket called:-<br /><br />Anne J. Duggan (2004) Thomas Becket. Hodder Education. <br />ISBN 978 0 340 741382<br /><br />Another would be David Knowles:-<br /><br />David Knowles (1970) Thomas Becket. Adam & Charles Black.<br />ISBN 0 7136 1154 5<br /><br />And another<br /><br />Z.N. Brooke (1952) The English Church and the Papacy. Cambridge.<br /><br />And<br /><br />W.L.Warren (1973) Henry II. California.<br />ISBN 0 520 02282 3<br /><br />And<br /><br />Frank Barlow (1986) Thomas Becket. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.<br />ISBN 0 297 78908 2<br /><br />And<br /><br />Felix Makower (1895) The Constitutional History and Constitution of the Church of England. London and New York.<br />CJD (Jim) Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291978136120949008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856289332689314703.post-84553260206889389672014-01-28T09:05:10.968+00:002014-01-28T09:05:10.968+00:00Hi!I'm writing a graduation thesis on the figu...Hi!I'm writing a graduation thesis on the figure of Thomas Becket and I've found your blog very useful!Now..could you help me writing something about the consequences of his murder on the relationship between crown and church or in the English kingdom? I got stuck at this point. Thank you so muchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com