{"product_id":"thomas-saga-erkibyskups-a-life-of-archbishop-thomas-becket-in-icelandic-paperback-9781108049214","title":"Thómas Saga Erkibyskups; A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108049214","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThómas Saga Erkibyskups\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA two-volume Old Norse text and English translation of the fourteenth-century saga of Thomas Becket, first published in 1875–83.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEiríkr Magnússon (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108049214, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e620 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm, 0.9 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis Old Norse text and English translation, prepared by the librarian and scholar Eiríkr Magnússon (1833–1913) and published in two volumes between 1875 and 1883, remains the standard edition of the 'Saga of Archbishop Thomas'. Composed in Iceland in the early fourteenth century, it narrates the life, death and miracles of Thomas Becket, based on earlier Latin and Old French traditions. Embedded in the saga is a lost Latin life by Robert of Cricklade, written soon after Becket's murder in 1170, which contains some unique details: for example, that he had a stammer. The saga is valuable not only as evidence for Becket's life, but as an insight into the development of his saintly cult in Iceland. Volume 1 contains the account of Thomas's childhood, his life as chancellor and archbishop, his conflict with the king and his murder at Canterbury.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e 1. Here beginneth the story of archbishop Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 2. How Anselm became archbishop of Canterbury\u003cbr\u003e 3. The birth of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 4. Of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 5. St Thomas goeth to school\u003cbr\u003e 6. How Stephen became king of England, and of the tale of the popes\u003cbr\u003e 7. How God's man, Thomas, cometh home from school\u003cbr\u003e 8. How Thomas fell into the river\u003cbr\u003e 9. How Thomas was made archdeacon\u003cbr\u003e 10. How St Gregory first set up Christian law in England\u003cbr\u003e 11. How Henry became king of England\u003cbr\u003e 12. How Thomas became chancellor\u003cbr\u003e 13. Concerning the habits of St Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 14. How king Henry elected Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 15. How Thomas was elected archbishop of Canterbury\u003cbr\u003e 16. How Thomas was absolved by the crown\u003cbr\u003e 17. Thomas ordained monk\u003cbr\u003e 18. How Thomas was consecrated bishop\u003cbr\u003e 19. How archbishop Thomas fareth in his daily manner of life\u003cbr\u003e 20. The habits of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 21. Concerning the household rules of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 22. Of the zeal of archbishop Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 23. Of the reproofs of the holy lord Thomas archbishop\u003cbr\u003e 24. Of archbishop Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 25. How Thomas consecrated bishops and translated the body of Edward\u003cbr\u003e 26. Here ariseth dissension between the bishop and the king\u003cbr\u003e 27. Quarrel between the king and the bishop\u003cbr\u003e 28. Of Thomas and the bishops\u003cbr\u003e 29. How Thomas consenteth to the king's customs\u003cbr\u003e 30. How a clerk chid Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 31. The masterful ways of Henry\u003cbr\u003e 32. The meeting of Northampton\u003cbr\u003e 33. How Thomas falleth ill\u003cbr\u003e 34. Here the bishops turn against St Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 35. God's man Thomas rideth away from the meeting\u003cbr\u003e 36. How Thomas fareth away\u003cbr\u003e 37. The dream areded\u003cbr\u003e 38. Here beginneth the flight of archbishop Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 39. Of the travelling of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 40. How the king sent to Rome\u003cbr\u003e 41. Of the messengers of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 42. How Thomas cometh to the pope's court\u003cbr\u003e 43. How Thomas readeth out the charges\u003cbr\u003e 44. How Thomas overcame the cardinals\u003cbr\u003e 45. The customs of king Henry condemned\u003cbr\u003e 46. How Thomas resigned\u003cbr\u003e 47. How our Lord revealed Himself in a vision to the holy Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 48. Of the hardness of king Henry\u003cbr\u003e 49. How archbishop Thomas and king Henry send to the pope\u003cbr\u003e 50. How king Henry turneth against the pope\u003cbr\u003e 51. The pope's letter to king Henry\u003cbr\u003e 52. The king softeneth not\u003cbr\u003e 53. Thomas writeth a letter to king Henry\u003cbr\u003e 54. The kin of Thomas are banished\u003cbr\u003e 55. The pope goeth to Rome, but Thomas abideth behind\u003cbr\u003e 56. How the holy Thomas went away from Pontigny\u003cbr\u003e 57. How the pope writeth to England\u003cbr\u003e 58. How the bishop of London writeth\u003cbr\u003e 59. Concerning a vision\u003cbr\u003e 60. Letter from the bishops to Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 61. The letter of archbishop Thomas to the bishops\u003cbr\u003e 62. Concerning the messengers of the pope\u003cbr\u003e 63. Here the king forbiddeth to pray for Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 64. Concerning archbishop Thomas and king Henry\u003cbr\u003e 65. Of the parting of the kings\u003cbr\u003e 66. Of the meeting of archbishop Thomas and the kings\u003cbr\u003e 67. Concerning the coronation of the young Henry\u003cbr\u003e 68. Of the pope's message and interdict\u003cbr\u003e 69. Concerning the peace between the archbishop and the king\u003cbr\u003e 70. Of the archbishop and the king\u003cbr\u003e 71. How Saint Thomas asked the king of the French for a stone\u003cbr\u003e 72. How they commence strife against Saint Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 73. How Saint Thomas returneth to England and home to Canterbury\u003cbr\u003e 74. How the bishops went to meet king Henry with slanderous reports\u003cbr\u003e 75. How archbishop Thomas was minded to go to the young king\u003cbr\u003e 76. Concerning four knights, the enemies of God\u003cbr\u003e 77. Concerning the holy Thomas, how he prophesied about his martyrdom\u003cbr\u003e 78. How the enemies of God spoke evil against the holy archbishop Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 79. How the knights came back to their followers\u003cbr\u003e 80. The death of archbishop Thomas\u003cbr\u003e 81. 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