St. Thomas Becket, 2: the Martyrdom
'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - Een podcast door Richard Abels
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Send us a textIn this episode my co-host Dr. Jennifer Paxton and I explain the principles and personal grievances that led to the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket and the significance of that event for Church-State relations in medieval England. We also talk about T.S. Eliot’s and Jean Anouilh’s plays about Thomas’ martyrdom, and the movies based on those plays. This is the second of a two part series. If you haven’t already done so, you might want to listen to the first episode in which Jenny ...
