Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint

Praise for the exhibition***** The Times ***** The Telegraph ***** The Guardian ***** Evening Standard Praise for the book'If you cannot make it to the show itself, then I implore you to buy the catalogue, which is one of the best I've ever read - scholarly and entertaining, a good history book in its own right.' - Tim Stanley, The Telegraph‘A marvellous and consistently enthralling account’ - Christopher de Hamel, bestselling author of The Book in the Cathedral“[The book] provides an up-to-date, highly readable and lavishly illustrated text that will finally supplant Borenius’s book as the definitive account of the art of Thomas Becket” - Dr Tom Nickson, Arts Journal The murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 sent shockwaves across medieval Europe. He rose from ordinary beginnings in London to become chancellor to King Henry II and then Archbishop of Canterbury, making him one of the most powerful men in England. Becket’s fortunes changed when a bitter dis