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This is a major new edition of the letters written and received between 1162 and 1170 by Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and victim of the 'murder in the cathedral'. It takes the reader to the very heart of the great dispute that rocked the English kingdom in the twelfth century."Duggan's edition is magisterial...The Latin texts inspire confidence. The English translations is excellent: not only faithful but also idiomatic and a pleasure to read."--Speculum"Imagine, if you will, a collection of the letters of a major medieval figure, edited and translated by someone who has worked on the project for thirty-odd years, published to exacting standards by a prestigious press, with nearly every scholarly apparatus you could possibly want. You would have conjured up The Correspondence of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canturbury, 1162-1170, edited and translated by Anne Duggan, published in the Oxford Medieval Texts series. These two volumes are a dream come true."--Albion