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Notitie over de dood van Thomas, aartsbisschop van Canterbury
Century: 12
Hagiography
Historical notes
Latin
Dioc. Utrecht
County of Holland
INCIPIT
Anno Dominice incarnationis MCLXX martyrizatus est in Anglia...
EXPLICIT
...nullus mortalium conscius fuit.
Sex: M- Bio: -Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)
EDITING
Location:the monastery of Egmond (?) - Date:shortly after 1170, at last c. 1175 (Maccioni, 110) - Commission: /
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ABSTRACT
Short hagiographical description of the life and death of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered 29 December 1170. According to Maccioni the notes might have been meant to replace or to amplify the information hereabout in the Annales Egmundensis (f.169, see A065)
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
London, British Library
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MACCIONI (P.A.), ' The 'Egmond'-account of the Thomas Becket story' in: VIS (G.N.M.), MOSTERT (M.) en MARGRY (P.J.) ed., Heiligenlevens, Annalen en Kronieken. Geschiedschrijving in middeleeuws Egmond (Hilversum 1990) 111-114
LITERATURE
Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta
BONE (Q.), 'Saint Thomas Becket: English statesman and archbishop of Canterbury (1162-1170)', in: S. Wolbrink (ed.), Great Lives From History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453 (Pasadena, 2005) 147-150
BURGERS (J.W.J.), 'Geschiedschrijving in Holland tot omstreeks 1300', in: Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis 3 (2000) 99-104
CARASSO-KOK (M.), Repertorium van verhalende historische bronnen uit de middeleeuwen. Heiligenlevens, annalen, kronieken en andere in Nederland geschreven verhalende bronnen (Bibliografische reeks van het Nederlands Historisch Genootschap) ('s-Gravenhage, 1981) no 339
DUGGAN (J.A.), Thomas Becket : Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult (Aldershot, 2007)
DUGGAN (J.A.), Thomas Becket (Londres, 2004)
GUMBERT (J.), 'Een en ander over het handschrift van de Egmondse Annalen' in: G.N.M. VIS, M. MOSTERT, P.J. MARGRY ed., Heiligenlevens, Annalen en Kronieken. Geschiedschrijving in middeleeuws Egmond (Hilversum 1990) 65, 69
HAENCHEN (K.), Zur Kritik der Annales Egmundani (Berlijn 1921, getypte diss. Berlijn, fotokopie aanwezig in de UB te Amsterdam) 14, 38
HASELDINE (J.-P.), 'Thomas Becket: martyr, saint -- and friend?', in: R. Gameson, H. Leyser (eds.), Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies presented to Henry Mayr-Harting (Oxford, 2001) 305-317
HAYES (D.M.), 'Body as champion of church authority and sacred place: the murder of Thomas Becket', in: M.D. Meyerson, et al. (eds.), A Great Effusion of Blood? Interpreting Medieval Violence (Toronto, 2004) 190-215
HUGH (M.), 'Shame, masculinity, and the death of Thomas Becket', Speculum, 87 (2012) 1050-1088
MACCIONI (P.A.), ' The 'Egmond'-account of the Thomas Becket story', in: G.N.M. Vis, M. Mostert, P.J. Margry, eds. Heiligenlevens, Annalen en Kronieken. Geschiedschrijving in middeleeuws Egmond (Hilversum 1990) 92-111
OPPITZ-TROTMAN (G.), 'Birds, beasts and Becket: falconry and hawking in the lives and miracles of St. Thomas Becket', Studies in church history, 46 (2010) 78-88
POLS (M. S.), 'Bijdrage tot de kritiek der Annales Egmundani', in: Geschiedkundige opstellen aangeboden aan Robert Fruin ('s-Gravenhage 1894) 309-310
SCULLY (R.E.), 'The unmaking of a saint: Thomas Becket and the English Reformation.', Catholic Historical Review 86 (2000) 579-602
SLOCUM (K.B.), 'The making, re-making and un-making of the cult of Saint Thomas Becket', Hagiographica, 7 (2000) 3-16
STAUNTON (M.), 'Exile in the Lives of Anselm and Thomas Becket', in: L. Napran, E. Van Houts (eds.), Exile in the Middle Ages: Selected Proceedings from the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 8-11 July 2002 (International Medieval Research, 13) (Turnhout, 2004)
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 857-858
VIS (G.N.M.), 'Historiografie in middeleeuws Egmond', in: G.N.M. Vis, M. Mostert, P.J. Margry, eds. Heiligenlevens, Annalen en Kronieken. Geschiedschrijving in middeleeuws Egmond (Hilversum 1990) 21
VOLLRATH (H.), 'Was Thomas Becket chaste? Understanding episodes in the Becket lives', in: J. Gillingham (ed.), Anglo-Norman Studies, XXVII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 2004 (Woodbridge, 2005) 198-209
VOLLRATH (H.), Thomas Becket. Höfling und Heiliger (Göttingen/Zürich, 2004)
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2014-03-18 10:52:17

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