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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and beyond
    sub title: the uses and reception of a celebrity saint
  name:
    name part: Jordan, Alyce A.
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Slocum, Kay Brainerd
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 376 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Explores the commemoration and memorialization of the Canterbury martyr in visual and material culture. In life, and especially in death, Thomas Becket was nothing short of a medieval celebrity, whose significance spanned the European high Middle Ages in to the sixteenth-century. Henry VIII's suppression of his cult in 1536 only served to enhance his popularity elsewhere. Visual depictions of his life, high-profile careers, spectacular demise and posthumous legacies, are numerous. These images document both the extent, and the efficacy, of his invocation across religious, political and civic agendas. Becket remains the stuff of literature and legend, art, drama and cultural commodification. This volume explores Becket imagery, both in such traditional media as stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, and less common objects, such as toys, baptismal fonts and vernacular almanacs. Its essays provide new interpretations of the archaeological, iconographic and historiographic spectrum of Becket imagery by, for example, deconstructing religious-secular binaries in the study of pilgrim badges and revising long-established interpretations of Canterbury stained glass. They also expand the Becket visual canon into broader geographic and temporal contexts, from medieval Denmark and Spain to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and twenty-first-century Boston. Meanwhile, contributions which look at the appropriation and use of Becket imagery in the aftermath of the English Reformation break new ground in scrutinizing a subject well traversed in text, but that has only begun to be explored in visual and material culture.
  note: edited by Alyce A. Jordan and Kay Brainerd Slocum.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-364) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: à Becket, Saint
      name part: Thomas
      name part: 1118?-1170
    topic: Art
  subject:
    topic: Christian saints in art
  subject:
    topic: Iconology
  subject:
    topic: Christian art and symbolism
  subject:
    topic: Celebrities in popular culture
  classification: 704.94863
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture
  identifier: 9781837650446
  identifier: 1837650446
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250217
    record change date: 20250813175016.2
    record identifier: in00005648051