Thomas Becket and London

This lecture will explore how the influence of Thomas Becket permeated city life in medieval London.
A lecture by Professor Caroline Barron, Royal Holloway, University of London
25 February 2020 6:00pm UK Time
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‘St Thomas has adorned…London by his rising and Canterbury by his setting’. This lecture will explore how the influence of Thomas Becket permeated city life in medieval London until Henry VIII ordered the destruction of his shrine and the removal of his name from all liturgical books. It will include consideration of the first stone bridge over the Thames made possible by offerings in the chapel dedicated to him; the hospital in Southwark; and the Becket family home in Cheapside (later the hall of the Mercers’ Company).
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[@Paseosguiados]

Thank you very much for this video!!

[@clairerobsin]

"An ancient custom may only be something you just thought of"

[@370530e]

I may be wrong but the earliest reference that I can find to the phrase “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” is in 1964 when Peter O’Toole says it.

[@rin_etoware_2989]

Robert Dodsley's Chronicle of the Kings of England (1740) gives the quote as "O wretched Man that I am, who shall deliver me from this turbulent Priest?," but there's actually a contemporary source to the events that quoted the King as saying, "What miserable drones and traitors have I nurtured and promoted in my household who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric!"

[@miteor]

Fantastic 😊

[@pfscpublic]

A learned tour de force on TB

[@kevinashcroft2028]

was never realised.

[@massonman9099]

eh?

[@kevinashcroft2028]

Unfortunately the Mayflower fleet

[@dianesicgala4310]

The Puritans. Not such nice people those pilgrims. Very anti Catholic.

[@jamescorbett3611]

Fascinating - however these "academics" inhabit a closed reality and are all too often removed from reality.

[@370530e]

Mediaeval history isn’t real presumably?