Christopher de Hamel – Medieval Art Research

New Publication: The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket, by Christopher de Hamel

From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket.

Lecture: The Library of Saint Thomas Becket, Christopher de Hamel, The Society of Antiquaries, 2017

Archbishop Thomas Becket, martyred in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, was among the earliest private book collectors in English history. The richly-illustrated lecture looks at the manuscripts he owned and what happened to them, and it concludes with the unexpected and recent discovery of Becket’s Psalter, which was kept on his shrine in the Cathedral throughout the Middle Ages.