Author: GUY, JOHN. Title: Thomas Becket Warrior, Priest, Rebel, A Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Story Retold.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxii, 424, (1); genealogical table, two full page maps, 16 pages of coloured and b/w. photographic plates, notes on primary sources, notes and references, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, good copy. New York; Random House; 2012. Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, he was befriended and favoured by Henry II and quickly ascended the rungs of power and privilege. He led 700 knights into battle, brokered peace between warring states and advised King and Pope. Yet he lost it all defying his closest friend and King, resulting in his own bloody murder and the birth of a legend.
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