The Lives of St Thomas Becket and Early Scandinavian Literature
This paper will examine the obvious, as well as the less obvious, impact the corpus on St Thomas Becket (d. 1170) had, or may have had, on early saga writing in Iceland. The last decades of the twelfth century saw the production in England of around dozen Latin biographies (or Lives) of the Canterbu...
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| Language: | English |
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Morcelliana
2015
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2015, Volume: 81, Issue: 2, Pages: 394-413 |
| Further subjects: | B
culto dei santi
B Historiography B Icelandic Sagas B Thomas Becket B Worship of saints B Kings & rulers; Biography B agiografia B Saghe islandesi B Hagiography B Thomas, à Becket, Saint, ca. 1118-1170 B Saxo Grammaticus B cult of saints |
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