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The saint : a fictional biography of Thomas Becket
- Title
- The saint : a fictional biography of Thomas Becket / by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ; translated from the German by W.F. Twaddell.
- Author
- Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 1825-1898.
- Publication
- Providence : Brown University Press, ©1977.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PT2432.H4 Z3 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Twaddell, W. F. (William Freeman)
- Description
- vii, 129 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Centered on the great quarrel between Henry II and his Chancellor and Primate of England, Thomas Becket. Although in a broad sense based on history, its psychology is fancifully developed from a medieval legend found by Meyer in 1853 in Thierry's Histoire de la Conquête de l'Angleterre par les Normands (History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; 1825, Book IX), according to which Becket was the son of an Englishman and of the sister of the Kalif of Cordova. The story of Henry's amours with beautiful Rosamond Clifford in the hidden bower suggested the secret palace in which Meyer's Becket rears his daughter Grace to save her from royal lechery. The accidental slaying of Grace after her seduction by the king inspires in Becket a deep-laid plot for revenge under the veil of pretended loyalty and later of saintly devotion when he becomes Primate on Henry's nomination, whereby he drives the king to alternate fits of despair and fury over the loss of political advantages and of the love of his queen and sons. The tragic ending is historical.
- Uniform Title
- Heilige. English
- Alternative Title
- Heilige.
- Subject
- Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 > Fiction
- Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170
- 1154-1189
- Christian saints > Fiction
- Revenge > Fiction
- Fathers and daughters > Fiction
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- German fiction > 19th century
- Christian saints
- Great Britain > History > Henry II, 1154-1189 > Fiction
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Biographical fiction
- Christian fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Biographical fiction.
- Christian fiction.
- Romans chrétiens.
- Note
- Translation of Der Heilige.
- ISBN
- 0870571494
- 9780870571497
- LCCN
- 77007038
- OCLC
- ocm02984410
- 2984410
- SCSB-276407
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library