[bksvol-discuss] Historical fiction submission
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:29:24 -0600
Hi, all.
I've just submitted The Burning Time by Robin Morgan. It got a 99.8 rating.
Watch out for a lot of Celtic and Latin words, but a sighted reader has
verified that the scan is correct. Page breaks have been protected. As always,
if you need anything, contact:
solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx
Here's the synopsis:
When the Catholic Church brought The Burning Time-aka, the Inquisition-to
Ireland, it met a resistance such as it met nowhere else in Europe. Leading the
rebellion was one remarkable noblewoman: Dame Alyce Kyteler, who refused to
grant the Church power over her, her lands or her people, and refused to stop
the practice of the Old Religion.
In a tale based on actual historic documents and court transcripts, The Burning
Timetells the tale of how Dame Alyce is marked as a dangerous heretic by
an ambitious emissary of the Pope, who stakes his future on bringing her to
heel. To lose the battle with Dame Alyce, he tells his superiors, is to loose
all of Ireland.
But Dame Alyce is just as determined to fight back against the invaders'
injustice, its forced imposition of a new religion, and its blatant land grab.
After
she outwits the Church in a court trial, there is no return: Against the
penalty of being burned at the stake, she risks all to protect her people, her
faith and her beloved Ireland.
Shannon
"The different among us tell our stories because we are all only human and so
much need a witness to the truth,"
Claudia Bepko
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