Libro Murder in st Paul's: Justice and Vengeance in Tudor London De Richard Dale

portada Murder in st Paul's: Justice and Vengeance in Tudor London

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Matador

Autor

Richard Dale

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781838590451

Murder in st Paul's: Justice and Vengeance in Tudor London

Richard Dale (Autor) · Matador · Tapa Blanda

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In 1514 a respected London Merchant, Richard Hunne, was found hanging in Old St Paul's Cathedral. Whether it was murder or suicide was hotly debated but popular opinion, endorsed more recently by many historians, pointed to foul play by church officials. Around this central mystery, Dale has woven a story of murder, church politics and forbidden texts in turbulent pre-Reformation London. Hunne's widow, Anne, takes centre stage in this narrative as she attempts to solve and avenge the death of her husband. Her search for the truth will take her to Germany and Martin Luther's revolt against the authority of the church, and up against powerful figures such as the English Lord Chancellor, Thomas More. She becomes involved in the new illicit trade of printing religious texts, and will suffer both imprisonment and the danger of execution. She is helped by her lover, a German Hansa merchant, and through her adventures she will move closer to, and finally solve, the brutal killing of her husband - a crime that has baffled historians ever since the body was first found hanging in St Paul's.