Sacred Bones

Name: Sacred Bones
Brand: Four Winds Press
SKU: 9781940423104
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Confessions of a Medieval Grave Robber

Autor: Michael Spring

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Four Winds Press

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Sacred Bones is based on the true story of Deusdona (“God's gift"), a ninth-century Roman deaco...

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Autor

Michael Spring

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2015

Stránok

200

EAN

9781940423104

ISBN

9781940423104

Enbook ID

09407591

Vydavateľ

Four Winds Press

Hmotnosť

255

Rozmery

149 x 209 x 13

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Sacred Bones is based on the true story of Deusdona (“God's gift"), a ninth-century Roman deacon who worked in the catacombs, digging up worthless bones and selling them off as the holy remains of saints and martyrs. Deusdona thanked God for his worldly success, but he was also a clever businessman who knew how to strike deals with abbots and kings. It didn’t hurt that no church could be sanctified without a relic in residence, and that the more relics a church displayed, the more pilgrims came to visit with their coins and their prayers.

Deusdona was a Willy Loman of the Dark Ages, trafficking in bones. Every spring, when the snows melted from the Alpine passes, he traveled north with his “samples” – arms, cheek bones, toes – filling orders from the previous summer and drumming up business for the year to come.

Whether he is floating in the buff in Charlemagne’s baths or gathering body parts in Rome’s underground City of the Dead, Deusdona offers us a vivid portrait of daily life in the early Middle Ages at an early stage in the transformation of ancient Rome into the City of God.

Sacred Bones is both a medieval whodunit and a wry portrait of an age that has seldom been brought to life in such detail. Readers will relish the chance to immerse themselves in this oddly contemporary world.

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