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Книга Sacred Bones Michael Spring

Sacred Bones

Confessions of a Medieval Grave Robber

Автор: Michael Spring
Език: Английски език
Корици: С меки корици
Издател: 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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Автор
Michael Spring
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С меки корици
Издадена
2015
страници
200
EAN
9781940423104
ISBN
9781940423104
Enbook ID
09407591
Издател
Four Winds Press
Теглоt
255
Размери
149 x 209 x 13

Пълно описание

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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