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An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)

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An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)

de Susanna Gregory

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ISBN 10
0751519359
ISBN 13
9780751519358
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This book has been read, no wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "Two years after the Black Death has decimated the population of England, a new killer is stalking the streets of a serial murderer preying on the women of the small town. Matthew Bartholomew, a physician with ideas ahead of his time and his companion, the portly monk Brother Michael, must uncover the identity of the killer before he strikes again.
Meanwhile, bands of homeless peasants roam the land, shunning lives of virtual slavery in the fields, and turning instead to robbery and violence. The high death rate among priests and monks has left the people vulnerable to sinister cults that have grown up in the wake of the plague.
During the course of their investigation, Bartholomew and Brother Michael are compelled to undertake the exhumation of a clerk, eavesdrop on a sinister meeting in an abandoned church, and engage in a hair-raising chase on horseback to save their lives as they close in on an evil coven taking advantage of the despair caused by the plague." Good Reads "She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.
These books may have some aspects in common with the Ellis Peters Cadfael series, the mediaeval adventures of a highly intelligent Benedictine monk and herbalist who came to the Benedictine order late in an eventful life, bringing with him considerable secular experience and wisdom combined with a deal of native wit. This sets him apart from his comparatively innocent and naíve monastic brethren. His activities, both as a monk and a healer, embroil him in a series of mysterious crimes, both secular and monastic, and he enthusiastically assumes the rôle of an amateur sleuth. Sceptical of superstition, he is somewhat ahead of his time, and much accurate historical detail is woven into the adventures. But there any resemblance to the comparatively warm-hearted Cadfael series ends: the tone and subject matter of the Gregory novels is far darker and does not shrink from portraying the harsh realities of life in the Middle Ages. The first in the series, A Plague on Both Your Houses is set against the ravages of the Black Death and subsequent novels take much of their subject matter from the attempts of society to recover from this disaster.
These novels bear the marks of much detailed research into mediaeval conditions - many of the supporting characters have names taken from the documentation of the time, referenced at the end of each book - and bring vividly to life the all-pervading squalor of living conditions in England during the Middle Ages. The deep-rooted and pervasive practice of traditional leechcraft as it contrasts with the dawning science of evidence-based medicine is a common bone of contention between Matthew and the students he teaches at Michaelhouse College (now part of Trinity College, Cambridge), whilst the conflict between the students of Cambridge and the townsfolk continually threatens to escalate into violence.
Another series of books, set just after the Restoration of Charles II and featuring Thomas Chaloner, detective and former spy, began with A Conspiracy of Violence published in January 2006, and continues with The Body in the Thames, published in hardback edition January 2011." Good Reads

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Librería
Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art CA (CA)
Inventario del vendedor #
669-2023
Título
An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)
Autor
Susanna Gregory
Formato/Encuadernación
Softcover
Estado del libro
used - very good
Estado de la sobrecubierta
none - paperback
Cantidad disponible
1
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10
0751519359
ISBN 13
9780751519358
Editorial
Sphere
Lugar de publicación
United Kingdom
Fecha de publicación
1997
Páginas
408
Tamaño
17.5 cm x 10.5 cm
Palabras clave
Fiction, Historical Mystery

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