While Becket’s relics are likely to have been owned by institutions and individuals throughout much of later medieval England, the reliable surviving evidence for them is limited. Without pretending to anything like completeness, the present essay assesses a range of sources in order to determine (or at least suggest) their usefulness for constructing a historically rooted understanding of the definition, distribution, appearance, and housing of Becket-relics. The approach taken arises partially from an ambition to cover as much ground as possible in the available space, and partially from misgivings about the value of documents whose original contexts cannot be satisfactorily reconstructed. The analysis is intended to contribute to scholarship on the cult of Becket generally in later medieval England: to this end, evidence has been sought widely and Canterbury receives less attention than the reader might expect, although the essay turns to the cathedral priory at the end.

虽然贝克特的遗物可能在整个中世纪后期的英格兰都归机构和个人所有，但可靠的生存证据有限。在不冒充完整性的前提下，本文评估了一系列资料，以确定（或至少表明）它们对于构建对贝克特·里克的定义，分布，外观和住所的历史根源的理解是有用的。采取的方法部分源于在可用空间中覆盖尽可能多的地面的野心，部分源于对原始上下文无法令人满意地重建的文档的价值的怀疑。该分析旨在为后来的中世纪英格兰一般对贝克特崇拜的学术研究做出贡献：为此，