Slocum analyzes the image of Thomas Becket as presented in the liturgies composed in his honour, and examines these within the context of the political and soci

Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness's influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Saint Victor,

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout

In this volume, readers experience, in English translation, the colorful and varied textual fabric of the most important literary and creative repertory of the

The extraordinary growth and development of the cult of St Thomas Becket is investigated here, with a particular focus on its material culture.