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Unfortunately for Henry, despite Becket's own advance warning, his friend assumes the ecclesiastical office, then takes his role as spiritual minister very seriously.
John Farr: Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries John Farr 2011
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Unfortunately for Henry, despite Becket's own advance warning, his friend assumes the ecclesiastical office, then takes his role as spiritual minister very seriously.
John Farr: Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries John Farr 2011
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Unfortunately for Henry, despite Becket's own advance warning, his friend assumes the ecclesiastical office, then takes his role as spiritual minister very seriously.
John Farr: Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries John Farr 2011
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A little more than two years after his assassination, he was sainted, and a year after that Henry did public penance at Becket's tomb in Canterbury Cathedral, being stripped and publicly scourged.
Of Assemblyman Green, Chief Santiago and Thomas à Becket Dan 2008
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Earliest known representation of Becket's assassination.
Of Assemblyman Green, Chief Santiago and Thomas à Becket Dan 2008
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Becket's trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable fits, and though I'm still not quite finished with it 2666 is a contender.
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Henry II atoned for Becket's murder by having himself flogged in public, naked, at the door of the cathedral in his capital city.
Patt Morrison: Becket, Schmecket -- What About Those Martyred U.S. Attorneys? 2008
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Becket's allegiances are suspect and his methods are positively Machiavellian, as in this advice he gives to the king: "A good occupational force must never crush; it must corrupt."
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Though some elements of history--such as Becket's ancestry-- are distorted in favor of drama, it is an exceptional and, dare I say, fairly accurate film.
Archive 2007-03-01 Carolingian 2007
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Becket's elevation to man of God results in an unforeseen by Henry result: his inner vacuum is suddenly filled by a respect for a deity he once derided.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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