History
Comes Alive Series
Ronald
C. Finucane will present a lecture on "How to
Execute a Corpse: The ‘Trial’ of St. Thomas
Becket." on Wednesday,
October 18, 2006 at 7 pm in the Oakland Room of
the Oakland
Center (campus
map). The medieval practice of digging up and executing
traitors for postmortem punishment was common; Becket's "trial
and execution" under Henry VIII will be discussed as an
example. Admission is free, but reservations are requested.
Please call (248) 370-3511 or e-mail jkessler@oakland.edu.
Professor Finucane is among the foremost medieval scholars
of our time, having authored four landmark
studies of medieval history. He teaches Medieval, Renaissance
and Reformation history. In 2002 he was elected as a fellow
of the Royal Historical Society.
Books by Dr. Finucane at the Kresge Library:
- Miracles
and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (London and Totowa, 1977, republished
in paperback, N.Y.,
1995, 1996). A History Book Club selection.
- Appearances
of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts (London, 1982, N.Y., 1984); republished in paperback as
Ghosts: Appearances
of the Dead & Cultural Transformation (N.Y., 1996).
Published in Italy as Fantasmi: Apparizioni e transfigurazioni
cultturali
(Roma, 1997).
- Soldiers
of the Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War (London,
1982, N.Y., 1983). A History Book Club selection. Reprinted
as a paperback, 2001.
- The
Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval
Miracles (N.Y., 1997); reprinted as a paperback in 2000.
Related Articles*:
- Scully, Robert E. (2000). The
Unmaking of a Saint: Thomas Becket and the English Reformation. The Catholic
Historical Review, 86.4, 579-602
- Alexander, James W (1970). The
Becket Controversy in Recent Historiography. The
Journal of British Studies, 9.2, 1-26.
Wikipedia Entries
- Posthumous
execution
- Henry VIII of England
- English Reformation (Henrician Reformation)
- Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Thomas
Becket
Related Books:
- Butler, John (1995). The
quest for Becket’s
bones : the mystery of the relics of St Thomas Becket of
Canterbury. New Haven : Yale University Press.
- Jones, Thomas (1970). The
Becket controversy. New York,
Wiley.
- Barlow, Frank (1986). Thomas
Becket. Berkeley : University
of California Press.
- Graves, Michael (2003). Henry
VIII : a study in kingship.
London ; New York : Pearson Longman.
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