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Scanned image of the book's front cover John Butler.
The Quest for Becket's Bones: The Mystery of the Relics of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury
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New Haven: Yale U.P., 1995.
ISBN 0300061153;
ISBN-13: 9780300061154.
Hardback, stitch bound.
175x252x20mm.
xii,180pp, illustrated throughout monochrome and some colour.
English.
Good condition

This item £11.00 
[Publisher's price $48.00/£30.00]
736g. 

In 1888 the discovery at Canterbury of a skeleton whose skull had seemingly been cleft by a sword opened up a fierce controversy as to the fate of Thomas Becket's remains, previously thought to have been burnt during the Reformation. New discoveries in 1990 reopened the debate... 

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