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The Illuminator Reprint edition
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
The Illuminator Reprint edition
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
It is England, in the late fourteenth century, a time when the old feudal order is starting to crack, but the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop still has the power to seal nearly anyone's fate. The printing press has yet to be invented; books are rare and costly, painstakingly lettered and illuminated with exquisite paintings.
For Lady Kathryn of Blackingham Manor, a widow and mother trying desperately to safeguard her holdings without the dubious protection of her late husband, it is a time made both sweeter and more perilous by the arrival of a master illuminator called Finn. Caught between the King's taxes and the Church's tithes, Kathryn strikes a bargain with the local abbot: she will take Finn and his pretty young daughter into her household in exchange for the monastery's protection.
Finn is working not only on approved church texts, but secretly---and dangerously---on a forbidden English translation of the Bible. As the hesitant friendship between Kathryn and Finn grows into a passionate alliance, wonderful new storyteller Brenda Rickman Vantrease brings us a glorious novel of love, treachery, faith, and redemption on the eve of the Renaissance.
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 27 grudnia 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780312331924 |
Wydawcy | St. Martin's Griffin |
Strony | 432 |
Wymiary | 141 × 211 × 29 mm · 498 g |
Język | English |
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