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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

Note 488 — Chapter III · PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGES

Lucy Toulmin Smith translation

A beautifully illustrated fragment of a life of the saint, in French verse of the thirteenth century, has been published with facsimiles by Paul Meyer: “Fragments d’une vie de saint Thomas de Cantorbéry,” Paris, 1885. A remarkable thirteenth-century picture of the murder, with obvious attention to historical exactitude, is in one of the MSS. of the Yates Thompson Collection, reproduced in the Catalogue of the sale (March 23, 1920), lot xxxiv.

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