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Dear Juris,
"According to William Fitz Stephen, Thomas was abandoned at this point by John of Salisbury and all his clerks except Robert, canon of Merton, who was his chaplain and constant companion, Edward Grim, and himself."
This is from Kay Slocum, Liturgies in Honour of Thomas Becket. University of Toronto Press 2004 66-67. She is quoting the rolls series which has a series of volumes called I belive Materials for the Biography of Thomas Becket or the like.
Her account continues:
"The biographers note the place where the martyr took his stand. It is not, as John of Salisbury reports, and is portrayed in countless images, in front of the altar. As stated by Anonymous I, it was 'near an altar of St. Benedict," Thomas having 'turned aside to the northern par of the church'. William of Canterbury is even more definite. "He took his stand in the place where he had long ago beheld hismelf crucified in a dream (so it is asserted), having on his left the Cross that went before him; at his back, a wall; before him, an image of the blessed Mary; on all sides, memorials and relics of the saints."" 67
She doesn´t say where John of Salisbury actually was, perhaps one of the other chroniclers mentions this.
Meg
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture on behalf of Juris G. Lidaka
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Subject: [M-R] John of Salisbury at Becket's martyrdom
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In the preface of Pepin's recent translation of John of Salisbury's
Life of Becket (PIMS, 2009; ISBN 978 0 88844 298 7) lies this
sentence:
John was...present in the cathedral when Becket's murder occurred,
albeit from a rather ignominious position, concealed in the shadows of
the darkening church.
Dramatic and exciting, but I don't know enough about all this. The
sentence is also repeated on the back cover and on the half-title
page. In the Life itself, John has no comment on his location,
despite his description and quotation of dialogue (although medieval
historians & chroniclers often invented these for verisimilitude).
His letter from years before, which he quoted from almost verbatim for
the Life, also does not locate him (or indicate the time of day when
it happened). (The version to John of Canterbury, bishop of Poitiers,
is in Millor & Brooke's ed. of the Letters (Oxford, 1979) 2: 724-39.
Where do these bits of information come from-John's location and the
time of day? Thanks much!
Juris
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Juris G. Lidaka
West Virginia State University
Department of English
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