Thomas becket : warrior, priest, rebel PDF
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ALSO BY JOHN GUY A Daughter’s Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade The Tudor Monarchy Tudor England Contributor to The Oxford History of Britain, The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The Sixteenth Century, The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain Copyright © 2012 by John Guy All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. This work was originally published in the United Kingdom by Viking, a division of Penguin Books Ltd. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Guy, John Thomas Becket: warrior, priest, rebel / John Guy. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-679-60341-2 1. Thomas, ? Becket, Saint, 1118?–1170. 2. Great Britain—History—Henry II, 1154–1189— Biography. 3. Christian martyrs—England—Biography. 4. Christian saints—England—Biography. 5. Statesmen—Great Britain—Biography. I. Title. DA209.T4G89 2011 942.03’1092—dc23 2011042794 [B] www.atrandom.com Jacket design: Victoria Allen v3.1 CONTENTS Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Note on Units of Currency Genealogical Table The Normans and Angevins Maps Angevin and Capetian Territories, c. 1160 Thomas Becket in Exile, 1164–1170 Prologue 1 | ANCESTRY 2 | UPBRINGING 3 | POLITICS 4 | PARIS 5 | A FRESH START 6 | APPRENTICE 7 | INTO THE LIMELIGHT 8 | ARRIVAL AT COURT 9 | ROYAL MINISTER 10 | BUREAUCRAT AND JUDGE Illustration Insert 1 11 | WARRIOR 12 | A SOLITARY MAN 13 | RENDER UNTO CAESAR 14 | ARCHBISHOP 15 | A BROKEN RELATIONSHIP 16 | CONVERSION 17 | THE CLASH 18 | CLARENDON 19 | NORTHAMPTON 20 | EXILE 21 | ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACK Illustration Insert 2 22 | SEARCH FOR A SETTLEMENT 23 | THE CASE AGAINST BECKET 24 | CAT AND MOUSE 25 | A TRIAL OF STRENGTH 26 | RETURN TO CANTERBURY 27 | MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 28 | AFTERMATH 29 | MARTYR Acknowledgments Appendix A: An Early Becket Biographers’ Who’s Who Appendix B: Note on Primary Sources Notes and References Illustration Credits About the Author NOTE ON UNITS OF CURRENCY I N CITING UNITS OF CURRENCY, THE OLD STERLING DENOMINATIONS of pounds, shillings, and pence have been retained. There are 12 pence (12d.) in a shilling (1s.), twenty shillings in a pound (£1), and so on. A mark is roughly 13s. 4d., although the precise correlation would depend entirely on the silver content of the coins tendered in payment, so conversions are not feasible. The sum of £100, the equivalent of around £60,000 (US $96,000) today, is the amount needed to pay the household expenses of an average baron for a year. One thousand silver marks would be worth around £400,000 (US $640,000) today. Some rough estimates of the contemporary purchasing equivalents for Anglo-Norman and Angevin units of currency, where applicable, are given in the text.
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