Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: a 900-year-old Story Retold

John Guy

Behind the legend, there was a man. In 1120 the wife of a Norman draper's merchant gave birth to a baby boy in London's bustling Cheapside. Despite his sickly constitution, middle-class background and unremarkable abilities, he rose within the space of thirty-five years to become the most powerful man i...