The first book in the series, this bestselling novel introduces Margaret of Ashbury, a fourteenth-century Englishwoman with mystical abilities Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret's scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union-a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different-to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop's court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her.
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Autorentext
Judith Merkle Riley is a professor of political science and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Titel
A Vision of Light
Untertitel
A Margaret of Ashbury Novel
Autor
EAN
9780307347084
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.79 MB
Anzahl Seiten
448
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