In citing manuscripts or printed materials, the following abbreviations are used:
Actes |
Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d’Angleterre et Duc de Normandie, Concernant les Provinces Françaises et les Affaires de France, ed. L. Delisle and E. Berger, 3 vols. and introduction (Paris, 1909–27) |
ALCD |
M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1905) |
Barlow |
F. Barlow, Thomas Becket (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986) |
BL |
British Library, London |
BNF |
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
Bodleian |
Bodleian Library, Oxford |
CCCC |
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Chronicles |
Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, ed. R. Howlett, 4 vols. (London, 1884–9) |
CSEL |
Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 87 vols. (Vienna, 1866–1976) |
CTB |
The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. 1162–1170, ed. A. J. Duggan, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2000) |
CUL |
Cambridge University Library |
DSCDR |
Dialogus de Scaccario: The Dialogue of the Exchequer, ed. E. Amt, and Constitutio Domus Regis: Disposition of the Royal Household, ed. S. D. Church (Oxford, 2007) |
Duggan |
A. J. Duggan, Thomas Becket (London, 2004) |
EHD |
English Historical Documents: Volume II, 1042–1189, ed. D. C. Douglas and G. W. Greenaway, 2nd edn (London, 1981) |
EHR |
English Historical Review |
Eyton |
R. W. Eyton, Court, Household and Itinerary of King Henry II (London, 1878) |
Foedera |
Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae et Cuiuscunque Generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et Alios Quosuis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes vel Communitates. Volume I, Part I, ed. T. Rymer (London, 1816) |
GC |
Gervase of Canterbury, ‘Cronica Gervasii’, in HASD, cols. 1338–1628 |
GH |
Gervase of Canterbury, ‘The History of the Archbishops of Canterbury’, in The Church Historians of England. Volume V, Part I, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1858), pp. 293–348 |
Greenaway |
The Life and Death of Thomas Becket, Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury … with Additions from Other Contemporary Sources, ed. G. W. Greenaway (London, 1961) |
GS |
Gesta Stephani, Regis Anglorum et Ducis Normannorum, ed. R. H. C. Davis and K. R. Potter (Oxford, 1976) |
Guernes |
La Vie de Saint Thomas Le Martyr, Archévêque de Canterbury, ed. C. Hippeau (Paris, 1859) |
HASD |
Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem, ed. R. Twysden (London, 1652) |
Henry II |
Henry II: New Interpretations, ed. C. Harper-Bill and N. Vincent (Woodbridge, 2007) |
HH |
The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon, ed. Thomas Forester (London, 1853), pp. 1–297 |
HJ |
Historical Journal |
HP |
The ‘Historia Pontificalis’ of John of Salisbury, ed. M. Chibnall (2nd edn, Oxford, 1986) |
Knowles |
D. Knowles, Thomas Becket (London, 1970) |
Laarhoven |
John of Salisbury’s Entheticus Maior and Minor, ed. J. van Laarhoven, 3 vols. (Leiden, 1987) |
Lambeth |
Lambeth Palace Library, London |
LJS |
The Letters of John of Salisbury, ed. W. J. Millor, H. E. Butler and C. N. L. Brooke, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1979–86) |
LPC |
The Letters of Peter of Celle, ed. J. Haseldine (Oxford, 2001) |
Lyttelton |
George, Lord Lyttelton, The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, 5 vols. (new edn, London, 1777) |
Map |
Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium: Courtiers’ Trifles, ed. M. R. James (Oxford, 1983) |
MS |
Manuscript |
MTB |
Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, ed. J. C. Robertson and J. B. Sheppard, 7 vols. (Rolls Series: London, 1875–85) |
NA |
National Archives, Kew |
ODNB |
The New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. (Oxford, 2004) and http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/index.html |
OV |
The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, ed. T. Forester, 4 vols. (London, 1853–6) |
PJS 1 |
John of Salisbury, Policraticus, ed. C. J. Nederman (Cambridge, 1990) |
PJS 2 |
John of Salisbury, Frivolities of Courtiers and Footprints of Philosophers [translation of the first, second and third books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books of the Policraticus], ed. J. B. Pike (New York, 1972) |
PL |
Patrologia Latina, ed. J.-P. Migne, 221 vols. (Paris, 1844–64) |
Radford |
L. B. Radford, Thomas of London before his Consecration (Cambridge, 1894) |
RC |
‘A Reconstruction of Robert of Cricklade’s Vita et Miracula S. Thomae Cantuariensis’, ed. M. Orme, Annalecta Bollandiana, 84 (1966), pp. 379–98 |
RD |
Ralph of Diss, ‘Ymagines Historiarum’, in HASD, cols. 525–710 |
RH |
Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene [The Chronicle of Roger of Howden], ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols. (London, 1868) |
RM |
Robert de Monte, ‘The Chronicles of Robert de Monte’, in The Church Historians of England. Volume IV, Part II, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1856), pp. 675–813 |
RN |
The Chronicles of Ralph Niger, ed. R. Anstruther (Caxton Society: London, 1851) |
SC |
Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History, ed. W. Stubbs (9th edn, Oxford, 1962) |
Staunton |
The Lives of Thomas Becket, ed. Michael Staunton (Manchester, 2001) |
TCC |
Trinity College, Cambridge |
TRHS |
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society |
TSE |
Thomas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic with English Notes and Translation, ed. E. Magnusson, 2 vols. (London, 1875–83) |
WM |
William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the Kings of England, ed. J. A. Giles (London, 1847) |
WN |
William of Newburgh, ‘The History of William of Newburgh’, in The Church Historians of England. Volume IV, Part II, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1856), pp. 397–672 |