MST200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Geoffrey Chaucer
11 Oct 2016
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1340-1400, middle english, hundred years war, economic changes. Norman conquest: french vocab comes in, simplified grammar, vocabulary changes. 80+ manuscripts exist, but no authoritative or signed ones, all vary. Spring time, season of hopefulness, beginnings, easter, birds stirring, spiritual renewal. Pilgrimage: jerusalem particularly the destination (though no exclusively a christian phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:895), a(cid:374)d su(cid:396)(cid:396)ou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g site, (cid:396)et(cid:396)a(cid:272)i(cid:374)g jesus" steps. Community of devotion to saints, where they lived and where what remains of them are located. Becket is chancellor to henry ii, very good in his role. Reluctantly becomes arch bishop of canterbury, took this very seriously, by putting the brakes on royal authority, doing what the pope wanted over what the ki(cid:374)g wa(cid:374)ted. The ki(cid:374)g"s (cid:373)e(cid:374) assassi(cid:374)ated be(cid:272)ket i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ter(cid:271)ury cathedral. Cult of thomas objects include a tin and lead busts, pilgrim badges, and many beautifully decorated reliquaries. The better relics a shrine had the more visitors it would get.
