Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and Beyond : The Uses and Reception of a Celebrity Saint

Jordan, Alyce A. (EDT); Slocum, Kay Brainerd (EDT); Benbow, Eliot (CON); Caviness, Madeline H. (CON); Doyle, Kathleen (CON)

ISBN 10: 1837650446 / ISBN 13: 9781837650446

Published by Boydell Press, 2025

Seller Inventory # 48317488-n

Synopsis:

In life, and especially in death, Thomas Becket was nothing short of a medieval celebrity, whose significance spanned the European high Middle Ages in to the sixteenth-century. The essays contained in this volume explore Becket imagery in traditional media, such as stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, but also in less common objects such as toys and baptismal fonts, providing new interpretations and expanding the visual canon into broader geographical and temporal contexts. The contributions examining the appropriation and use of Becket imagery after the English Reformation break new ground by focusing on the visual and material culture rather than texts.

About the Authors: ALYCE A. JORDAN is Emeritus Professor at Northern Arizona University.

KAY BRAINERD SLOCUM is Emerita Professor at Capital University, Ohio.

RACHEL KOOPMANS is a historian of medieval religion, hagiography, and material culture who specialises in the cult of Thomas Becket and the stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral. She teaches history at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages ...
Publisher: Boydell Press
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New