The Book in the Cathedral. The Last Relic of Thomas Becket

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The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales to T. S. Eliot`s Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh`s Becket.
In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel h

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