Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel. By John Guy. Reviewed by David J. Engelsma

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, by John Guy (New York: Random House, 2012). Pp. 424. $35.00 (cloth). Reviewed by David J. Engelsma. For the laymen, as well as the clergy, who enjoy riveting history told by a first-rate historian in superb prose, John Guy's new biography of Thomas Becket is a delight. From the original sources and with critical judgment of later, usually hagiographic, accounts, biographer Guy relates the fascinating life and famed death of the twelfth century archbishop...