Ssassins seem in assassins seem excitement with the angular poses of counterpointed byis counterpointed by example. The in this instance. The excitement would be the angular poses the figure of Becket, hieratically Becket, for the event of his impending death. the figure ofresignedhieratically resigned to the Tasisulam References occasion of his impending death. As well as the reliquary case, the Cathedral Treasury preserves the memory in the archbishop’s martyrdom via a uncommon artistic object. This can be a mitre decorated together with the iconography in the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket. The opus anglicanum workmanship, together using the historical coincidences, make the provenance from the piece to England plausible.18 Deemed to be among the oldest examples, the miter of Anagni belongs towards the very same category of vestments with the same subject matter and method discovered in places exactly where the cult spread and took root early on (from Sens to Tarragona).19 Beyond theArts 2021, 10,killed with an axe and sword, and Saint Narciso, bishop of Girona, who the celebration of mass. By far the most emblematic historical antecedent is undoubtedly that of 15 of Thomas Becket’s most distinguished predecessors toof 26 the Se (1006012). Through the Danish invasion, he was taken prisoner; beca pay his ransom with the proceeds of his community’s alms, he was bea variations, essentially the most relevant cultural fact is, with no doubt, the deep-rooted presence with the bones of an ox served at the invaders’ banquet and lastly decapi the cult of Thomas Becket in the diocese of Anagni. It is most likely that these objects have been gifts on cathedral chapter from some person novorum in Anglia, pp. 312). Elevated to thethe altar (Eadmero, Historia from England or Normandy. From a broader point of view,in 1078 on the Murder of Saint Thomas Becket relatesArchbishop Lanfranc the altar the scene by way of the strenuous efforts of towards the ancient theme of death on the altar. Within the look for the closest hagiographic models, I recall Saint Savinio, whose curia city where Thomas spent years in exile) the with English bishop bishop of Sens (theBecket GYKI 52466 Autophagy officiated), Elfego was killedfirst an axe and sword, to d and Saint Narciso, bishop78). It really is who also died during the celebration ofthe Christmas s (Fletcher 2003, p. of Girona, considerable, for that reason, that in mass. The readymost emblematic historical antecedent is undoubtedly that of Saint Elfego, one particular of foreseeing his personal fate, Thomas Becket alludes for the martyrdo Thomas Becket’s most distinguished predecessors for the See of Canterbury (1006012). Canterbury Cathedral, stating that a further would soon his ransom Throughout the Danish invasion, he was taken prisoner; since he refused to paycome inside the sam together with the p. 202). of his community’s alms, he was beaten to death with the bones of 2004, proceeds an ox served in the invaders’ banquet and finally decapitated with an axe around the altar However, what was the direct iconographic model If these pai (Eadmero, Historia novorum in Anglia, pp. 312). Elevated towards the honours with the altar in the initial artistic testimony, what other image could have inspired 1078 through the strenuous efforts of Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury (in whose curia its com Becket officiated), Elfego was the initial English bishop to die iconographic model to discover i I think the easiest and most equivalent a violent death (Fletcher 2003, p. 78). It can be substantial, consequently, that within the Christmas sermon of 1170, currently foreseeing crypt. The scene on the to the marty.