This volume contains excerpts from medieval accounts (many by eye-witnesses) of Archbishop Thomas Becket's life and violent death at the hands of several knights. Translator and editor Staunton (medie
Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194) was one of the most brilliant, original and versatile thinkers of the twelfth century. Herbert was Thomas Becket's closest confidant, a theologian, biblical commentat