Who Put the ‘a’ in ‘Thomas a Becket’? The History of a Name from the Angevins to the 18th Century
This article examines the history of Becket’s name from his birth to c. 1800, through detailed corpus analysis, with a particular focus on the varying popularity of the ‘Becket’ and ‘a Becket’ forms from the 16th to 18th centuries. The analysis goes beyond positivist attempts to decide on the ‘corre...
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Open Library of Humanities
2023-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/9353/ |