From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable
Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of
Thomas Becket The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury
Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in
European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval
Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's Becket. In a
brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel
here identifies the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine: the
Anglo-Saxon Psalter which he cherished throughout his time as
Archbishop of Canterbury, and which he may even have been holding
when he was murdered. Beautifully illustrated and published to
coincide with the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket,
this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative
artefacts of medieval England.
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