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Relics from the centuries-old crime scene will go on show at the British Museum’s first major exhibition about the medieval martyr
For centuries it was the world’s most notorious state-sanctioned murder. When King Henry II of England made it clear in the winter of 1170 that his dislike of the cleric Thomas Becket had reached new levels, it took just a few days for four of his knights to go into action, hewing down Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, inside his cathedral.
Now, in the first major exhibition about Becket, the murder, and the cult that rose up following his death, the British Museum is to display a wide range of the surviving objects from the crime scene. Among them, as a gory crowning glory, will be a surviving fragment of the martyr’s skull. Continue reading...