Thómas Saga Erkibyskups
A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic
Volume 1
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- Editor: Eiríkr Magnússon
- Date Published: November 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108049214
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This 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.
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- Date Published: November 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108049214
- length: 620 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.9kg
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Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Here beginneth the story of archbishop Thomas
2. How Anselm became archbishop of Canterbury
3. The birth of Thomas
4. Of Thomas
5. St Thomas goeth to school
6. How Stephen became king of England, and of the tale of the popes
7. How God's man, Thomas, cometh home from school
8. How Thomas fell into the river
9. How Thomas was made archdeacon
10. How St Gregory first set up Christian law in England
11. How Henry became king of England
12. How Thomas became chancellor
13. Concerning the habits of St Thomas
14. How king Henry elected Thomas
15. How Thomas was elected archbishop of Canterbury
16. How Thomas was absolved by the crown
17. Thomas ordained monk
18. How Thomas was consecrated bishop
19. How archbishop Thomas fareth in his daily manner of life
20. The habits of Thomas
21. Concerning the household rules of Thomas
22. Of the zeal of archbishop Thomas
23. Of the reproofs of the holy lord Thomas archbishop
24. Of archbishop Thomas
25. How Thomas consecrated bishops and translated the body of Edward
26. Here ariseth dissension between the bishop and the king
27. Quarrel between the king and the bishop
28. Of Thomas and the bishops
29. How Thomas consenteth to the king's customs
30. How a clerk chid Thomas
31. The masterful ways of Henry
32. The meeting of Northampton
33. How Thomas falleth ill
34. Here the bishops turn against St Thomas
35. God's man Thomas rideth away from the meeting
36. How Thomas fareth away
37. The dream areded
38. Here beginneth the flight of archbishop Thomas
39. Of the travelling of Thomas
40. How the king sent to Rome
41. Of the messengers of Thomas
42. How Thomas cometh to the pope's court
43. How Thomas readeth out the charges
44. How Thomas overcame the cardinals
45. The customs of king Henry condemned
46. How Thomas resigned
47. How our Lord revealed Himself in a vision to the holy Thomas
48. Of the hardness of king Henry
49. How archbishop Thomas and king Henry send to the pope
50. How king Henry turneth against the pope
51. The pope's letter to king Henry
52. The king softeneth not
53. Thomas writeth a letter to king Henry
54. The kin of Thomas are banished
55. The pope goeth to Rome, but Thomas abideth behind
56. How the holy Thomas went away from Pontigny
57. How the pope writeth to England
58. How the bishop of London writeth
59. Concerning a vision
60. Letter from the bishops to Thomas
61. The letter of archbishop Thomas to the bishops
62. Concerning the messengers of the pope
63. Here the king forbiddeth to pray for Thomas
64. Concerning archbishop Thomas and king Henry
65. Of the parting of the kings
66. Of the meeting of archbishop Thomas and the kings
67. Concerning the coronation of the young Henry
68. Of the pope's message and interdict
69. Concerning the peace between the archbishop and the king
70. Of the archbishop and the king
71. How Saint Thomas asked the king of the French for a stone
72. How they commence strife against Saint Thomas
73. How Saint Thomas returneth to England and home to Canterbury
74. How the bishops went to meet king Henry with slanderous reports
75. How archbishop Thomas was minded to go to the young king
76. Concerning four knights, the enemies of God
77. Concerning the holy Thomas, how he prophesied about his martyrdom
78. How the enemies of God spoke evil against the holy archbishop Thomas
79. How the knights came back to their followers
80. The death of archbishop Thomas
81. How good men grieved after the death of the holy archbishop Thomas.
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