THOMAS BECKET

Opis produktu

John Guy is an awardwinning historian accomplished broadcaster and a Fellow of Clare College Cambridge. His previous books include My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award the highly acclaimed dual biography A Daughters Love: Thomas and Margaret More and a history Tudor England which has sold over 250000 copies worldwide.From Thomas Beckets early life as a merchants son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history. Lively effortlessly readable superb. A beautifully layered portrait of one of the most complex characters in English history The Times ____________________This is the man not the legend . . . Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a drapers merchant he was befriended and favoured by Henry II and quickly ascended the rungs of power and privilege. He led 700 knights into battle brokered peace between warring states and advised King and Pope. Yet he lost it all defying his closest friend and King resulting in his bloody murder and the birth of a saint. In awardwinning biographer John Guys masterful account the life death and times of Thomas Becket come vividly into focus. ____________________ Suspenseful meticulously researched . . . however well you think you know the story it is well worth the read Financial Times Wonderfully moving and subtle. Reading of the assassination is almost unbearably intense and brings tears to ones eye Daily Express Compelling marvellously measured entertainingly astute and in places positively moving The Independent Scintillates with energetic scenesetting giving us a tactile visual feel for early medieval England . . . breathes new life into an ofttold tale Financial TimesGB

Data Publikacji: 2013-04-25
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 28 mm 343 gr