5/15/2023 0 Comments A burnable book by bruce holsinger![]() ![]() Into this flammable mixture filters rumours of an ancient book of prophesy accurately predicting the forms of death of the first 12 kings of England – with an added prediction for the 13th, Richard – a document which could provoke civil war, rebellion and the collapse of what was then still Europe’s major power. Beset by crippling taxes to pay for the endless war with France, openly questioning a corrupt church through the reformist ideas of John Wycliffe and his Lollards, they are primed for a new rising. If there is dissension at the top, the common people are a powder keg. Less than five years after the Peasants’ Revolt and with London’s poor still on the brink of rebellion, the young king is torn between two powerful noble factions vying for influence, one headed by his uncle John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the other by Gaunt’s arch-enemy, Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford. ![]() Medievalist Bruce Holsinger pulls no punches in this intricately layered and earthy mystery debut set in 1385 in the early years of the reign of Richard II. ![]()
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