At the British Museum
Julia Smith: ‘Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint’, 15 July 2021
“... letters (the 12th-century equivalent of texting), of which 189 survive. He preferred hunting, hawking and fine clothes to the discipline and asceticism of religious life, all of which left him heavily in debt. He didn’t direct his energies to grand episcopal projects like his contemporary Henry of Blois, the wealthy bishop of Winchester, who oversaw the ... ”