Product Description

Focusing on the last month of Becket's life after his return to Canterbury, the author describes the dispute that broke out with renewed ferocity culminating in his murder in the Cathedral by four of the King's knights and concludes with an Epilogue reviewing his reputation in the centuries since his death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #124989 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-23
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

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An historic yet modern approach to crime
An old story revisited in fascinating detail. Highly readable and difficult to put down!

Martyrdom or tragedy? The life of Thomas Becket
A book packed with this much detail is usually intended for scholars, but "Thomas Becket" makes a fine read for a general audience. William Urry's "Becket" is all the better because Urry was a long-time resident, and lover, of Canterbury. He had previously co-authored a book about leading citizens of the town from the Anglo-Saxon period through the middle ages. Urry's other books about the town to which Becket's name is inextricably linked include, "A Pictorial Guide to Canterbury Cathedral," "Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury," and "Canterbury Under the Angevin Kings." These, of course, include Henry II, Becket's dearest friend turned nemesis. Urry died before he could publish his impressive "Thomas Becket." For that, readers owe much to Urry's friend, Henry Mayr-Harting, who wrote the Foreword.

Robert Fripp, author of
"Power of a Woman: Memoirs of a Turbulent Life: Eleanor of Aquitaine"