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The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
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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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| Weight | 0.174 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.3 × 13.8 × 20.4 cm |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 64 |
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| Year Published | 2020-8-6 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241469589 |
| About The Author | In the course of a long career at Sotheby's Christopher de Hamel probably handled and catalogued more illuminated manuscripts and over a wider range than anyone else alive. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and was Librarian of the Parker Library from 2000 to 2016, which holds many of the earliest manuscripts in English language and history, including the Psalter of Becket. Christopher de Hamel is the author of A History of Illuminated Manuscripts and Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize in 2016. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. |
Readers will delight in de Hamel's passion for his subject, his book's sumptuous illustrations, and above all his virtuoso display of learning |
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| Other text | De Hamel – author of the wonderful Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts – shows us all the tools of the bibliographer's trade: dating handwriting, identifying pigments, noting the rust marks left by nails from a now-lost ornate binding … The identification – or rehabilitation – of his psalter, the book he carried with him into exile, possibly held at his death, is a timely and enjoyable tribute. |
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