The Devil's Monk
by:
Jesse Russell (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780956702937
ASIN: B00CD4AXGW
Publish date: 2012-08-31
Publisher: Skycat Publications
Pages no: 316
Edition language: English
The Devil’s Monk is set in the turbulent days after the reign of Alfred. The background, then, is a time of enormous transition for Britain. There was political and military struggle, as Angles, Saxons, and Danes contended for mastery of the land and the older British tribes were squeezed out. There...
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