A Life of Thomas Becket in Verse by Guernes De Pont-Sainte-Maxence

A Life of Thomas Becket in Verse

Mediaeval Sources in Translation

Guernes De Pont-Sainte-Maxence with Ian Short (Translator)

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Composed in the immediate aftermath of Becket's murder in 1170, and based, in part, on oral testimony gathered at Canterbury and from Becket's sister, Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence's 6180-line narrative poem is the earliest Life of Becket to appe...

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