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A Life of Thomas Becket in Verse (Paperback)
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A Life of Thomas Becket in Verse (Paperback)
Series: Mediaeval Sources in Translation, 56
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Composed in the immediate aftermath of Becket's murder in 1170, and
based, in part, on oral testimony gathered at Canterbury and from
Becket's sister, Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence's 6180-line
narrative poem is the earliest Life of Becket to appear in the
French vernacular. Its account of Becket's life and martyrdom,
though heavily biased in favour of its saintly protagonist and the
cause he embraced, is informative as well as vigorously polemical.
It offers a viewpoint different from that of contemporary Latin
historians in that it was written to be listened to by laymen and
women. It was also recited at the saint's tomb at Canterbury, and
provides therefore a picture of events that would have reached a
contemporary French-speaking public avid for first-hand knowledge
of their new heroic martyr.
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