It has been taken down in clear digital sound that incorporates the reverberant acoustic of the church in a Franciscan convent in that town, but without too much reverberation in light of the need to project the texts clearly. [read post]

More recently, the eminent Tudor historian John Guy (author of a number of fine books on Thomas More) has written a splendid biography of Becket--a taste here: For his attack on the church's claim of immunity from secular jurisdiction, Anglo-American lawyers and constitutional historians in the nineteenth century would put on rose-colored spectacles and reinvent Henry as a legal reformer avant la lettre, a pioneer of fair trials and equality before the law who paved the… [read post]