Saints' Lives by Walter of Châtillon: Brendan, Alexis, Thomas Becket. Lives of Brendan and Alexis edited from London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vespasian D.ix. Thomas Becket edited from Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS. Reginensis latinus 344

The lives of Thomas Becket 9781526112682

This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous accla

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Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket 9781442676749

Slocum analyzes the image of Thomas Becket as presented in the liturgies composed in his honour, and examines these with

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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii 1843842556, 9781843842552

Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predi

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Thomas Becket : a textual history of his letters 0198224869, 9780198224860

The construction and deconstruction of Becket's reputation is central to this provocative new study. The cult of Be

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The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics] [Edited and with an introduction by Amy Gutmann] 9781400883523

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer l

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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii [New ed.] 1843842556, 9781843842552

Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013. Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ance

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The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries 9781315102870, 9781351593397, 9781351593380, 9781351593373, 9781138103283

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the e

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Lives of saints, from the Book of Lismore [1.0]

contains the classic biographies of 1. St. Patrick (DjVu pp. 275ff.) He, unlike Pelagius, successfully converted Ireland

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Letters of Brendan Behan 9780773563247

Brendan Behan -- a Dublin playwright, fiction writer, and poet -- made a deep impression on British theatre during the 1

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Intimate songs from the ms. Vatican Arabic 366 8821008169, 9788821008160

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