"So Similar, Yet so Different" - An essay on the relationship between THOMAS BECKET and KING HENRY II
Date Submitted: 11/15/2003 10:38:02
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (1078 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (1078 words)
Mei-Ling Liber
W6
12/18/03
English 12
#1: Discuss the complicated, convoluted relationship between Henry II and Thomas Becket. The operative term here is "discuss."
So Similar, Yet so Different
It is interesting to not how a Norman king and a Saxon cleric came to be best friends in the 1100s. However, that was the case with Henry II of England and Thomas Becket. Actually, both men were quite similar despite the fact that Becket was fifteen years older …
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…Henry was at the height of his power in 1170.
Works Cited Page
Britain Express. "Henry II and Thomas a Becket." November 2003 [Online] Available. <http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Henry_II_and_Thomas_a_Becket.htm> November 7, 2003.
Fraser, Antonia, ed. "Henry II." The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.
Walsh, Michael, ed. "29: St. Thomas Becket." Butler's Lives of the Saints. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
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