George Bell Institute International Series

Bishop Bell reading

ANNUAL GEORGE BELL INSTITUTE LECTURE:

Thursday 24 May 2012: 6.30pm in the Nave of the Cathedral.  Free entry, all welcome.

'THOMAS BECKET: TRAITOR, MARTYR, SAINT?' Professor Anne Duggan

'Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?', said Henry II, referring to Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.  Four knights interpreted this as a command, and hacked him down in his Cathedral on 29 December 1170.  Within thirty years, however, St Thomas of Canterbury was celebrated across the whole of Europe from Iceland to Sicily and from Portugal to Poland

Anne J. Duggan is Emerita Professor of Medieval History at King's College London.  Internationally acknowledged as one of the great authorities on Thomas Becket, she is both his biographer and the editor of his collected correspondence.



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