The Devil's Monk: Guardian of the Book - Couverture souple

Russell, J. R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956702937 ISBN 13 : 9780956702937

Editeur : Skycat Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Bald is returning to the home he left fifty years before as a small boy travelling with his father Cild, carrying the book of healing nostrums that became his life’s work. Their journey took them to the great libraries in monasteries and abbeys, adding to the knowledge in the book from the writings of the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Greece, Rome and Arabia. Cild, and after him Bald, used their skills to heal those in need where they could, and to ease the last days of those where they could not. Britain at that time was a dangerous place for books and wisdom, for the waves of Viking invaders had no use for scholars, destroying the libraries along with the buildings that held them and those who lived there. The Saxon King Alfred was ailing of a mystery disease that none had so far been able to cure. As he weakened, so his plans for a peaceful and united country came under increasing threat. It was a time of intrigue, treachery, blunt politics, deceit and cunning, where killing was a skill possibly more valued than healing, and a man who knew how to make one look like the other would always be in mortal danger. Bald’s plan of peaceful retirement would be shaken to the core as circumstances, Fate, God or gods set him on his travels again.The Devil’s Monk covers that volatile period of British history from King Alfred through the reigns of Athelstan and Edward to the birth of Edwin. Set at the time of the Viking wars, and the striving to create a united England from the separate kingdoms that Alfred inherited, it spans the politics of religion between Woden and Christ as the declared faith of the inhabitants, showing how this changed the perspectives of healing and understanding of natural forces. During this period, some of our most famous abbeys were founded, and this is explored from the viewpoints of rich and poor, native and invader, pagan and Christian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skycat Publications
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0956702937
• ISBN 13: 9780956702937
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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• Personne responsable: non disponible