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Judith Merkle Riley (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Judith Merkle Riley is a professor of political science and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Number of Pages: 448Dimensions: 1 x 7.9 x 5.2 INPublication Date: May 23, 2006
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