Life and Death in the High Middle Ages. In this thirteenth-century manuscript, knights of King Henry II stab Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, a dramatic example of church-state conflict. Becket was soon made a saint, and the spot where the murder occurred became a pilgrimage site. (© British Library Board, Harl 5102 fol. 32. All rights reserved/The Bridgeman Art Library)