Read The Archer's Castle: Exciting Medieval Novel And Historical Fiction About An English Archer, Knights Templar, And The Crusades During The Middle Ages In England In Feudal Times Before Thomas Cromwell
The Archer's Castle: Exciting Medieval Novel And Historical Fiction About An English Archer, Knights Templar, And The Crusades During The Middle Ages In England In Feudal Times Before Thomas Cromwell - Plot & Excerpts
Frideswide in Oxford. That’s the monastery Cardinal Wolsey dissolved and Henry the Eighth subsequently re-founded as the College of Christ Church after he broke with Rome in order to divorce his wife and wed the royal whore. The parchments with the monk’s writings were found in a trunk under a pile of rubble in the Bodleian library basement some years ago. The monk’s assignment, as he describes it below in his own hand, is to piece together personal stories from what’s left of some earlier parchments into one great history of the kingdom. According to the monk, the Englishman who paid for the history, a name the monk never reveals, wants something similar to that which the great Livy wrote for Rome so many years ago with its use of the current idiom so everyone can read it and its emphasis both on what actually happened and what everyone was thinking when they did whatever it is they did. Among the problems the monk says he has to overcome, of course, is that the exciting tales in the earlier parchments contain so many surprises and often have missing parts where the mice have eaten them. Another problem is that they are written in Latin and in various early versions of what is now called Middle English and Old French – so he must both piece the fragments together and update their words and idiom. What follows in this volume is mostly from the tales of William, the captain of a company of English archers, as they were faithfully recorded by his friend and scribe, Yoram of Damascus. The position of the Church is that the changes and excitement the archers caused in England and the Holy Land were God’s Will. The monk is obviously not so sure. According to him, sharp blades and ambitious men are a much more likely explanation.
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