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Author Slocum, Kay Brainerd

Title Liturgies in honour of Thomas Becket / Kay Brainerd Slocum
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 379 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Liturgical Images of Becket -- Methodology -- Becket's Biographers -- The Liturgies: Structure and Terminology -- PART ONE -- 1 Becket as Royal Chancellor -- 2 Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury -- Novus homo -- The Council of Clarendon -- 3 Becket in Exile -- Return to England -- 4 The Martyrdom -- 5 The Miracles -- The Water of St Thomas -- 6 The Development of the Cult of Becket -- Angevin Marriage Diplomacy and the Early Dissemination of the Cult
The Cult of Thomas Becket in Europe and the Nordic CountriesSummary -- PART TWO -- 7 Office for the Feast Day of St Thomas Becket, 29 December -- Commentary -- Studens livor -- Rhymed Office for the Feast of St Thomas Becket -- Office for St Thomas Becket in Sarum Breviary -- The Breviaries of Hereford Cathedral, York Cathedral, and Hyde Abbey -- 8 Office for the Translation of St Thomas Becket, 7 July -- Commentary -- Thomas's Tuesdays -- Rhymed Office for the Translation of St Thomas Becket -- Other Texts for the Translation of St Thomas Becket
Summary Slocum analyzes the image of Thomas Becket as presented in the liturgies composed in his honour, and examines these within the context of the political and social history of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index
Notes Text in English with some text in Latin with corresponding English translation
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Subject Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 -- Songs and music
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170.
SUBJECT Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 fast
Thomas (Becket) swd
Subject Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Christian saints -- England -- Biography
RELIGION -- Holidays -- Christian.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Christian saints
Liturgics
Kult
Gregorianischer Gesang
Geschichte
Liturgie
Heiliger
Katholische Kirche.
England
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Songs and music
Texts
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442676749
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6612022760
1282022768
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