Thomas à Becket

Standard Name: Becket, Thomas à
Used Form: Thomas a Becket

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Ridler
The new poems included Kirkwall 1942, about her wartime stay in Orkney,
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
138
and Jane Wakeful, which captures the exasperation of early parenthood and with ironic indirection relates it to other human emotions...
Literary Setting T. S. Eliot
Eliot depicts his protagonist, Becket —the archbishop who was murdered at his own altar steps in Canterbury for following his conscience and disobeying his king —less as a hero than as a tormented man who...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW never completed the work with which she hoped to crown her career as a scholar, a study of John of Salisbury (who lived in the twelfth century and was a pupil of Abelard ...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM saw herself as a professional dramatist, and in the tradition of that metier she was always alert for stories of distant origin, or forgotten or unfinished plays by others, which might be reworked for...

Timeline

1173: St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated;...

Building item

1173

St Thomas's Hospital in London was dedicated; it may have originated in the infirmary of the Priory of St Mary Overy in Southwark.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-57, 277

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