The Unquiet Bones: The First Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon: The First Chronicle of Hugh De Singleton, Surgeon - Brossura

Melvin R. Starr

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1854248855 ISBN 13: 9781854248855

Casa editrice: Monarch Books, 2008

Riassunto

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cess pit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes. From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

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L'autore:

Mel Starr has spent many years teaching history, and has studied medieval surgery and medieval English. He lives in Michigan.

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• Editore: Monarch Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1854248855
• ISBN 13: 9781854248855
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256