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The red knight
Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men-- or worse, a company of mercenaries-- against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it. The Red Knight has all three. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it's just another job...
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Death at the abbey : a lady of ashes mystery
1869. While on a much-needed respite with her husband Sam in Nottinghamshire, undertaker Violet Harper is summoned to Welbeck Abbey by the Fifth Duke of Portland to prepare a body. His Grace is known as the \"mad duke,\" and Violet has more than an inkling of why when she arrives at the grand estate and discovers that the corpse in question is that of the duke's favorite raven, Aristotle. Many of the duke's servants believe a dead raven is a harbinger of doom, and the peculiar peer hopes to allay their superstitious fears with an elaborate funeral for his feathered friend. But Aristotle's demise is soon followed by the violent murder of one of the young workers on the estate. Wishing to avoid any whisper of scandal, the reclusive duke implores Violet to conduct her own discreet investigation. In her hunt for evidence, Violet wonders if the manner of the raven's death might provide a crucial clue in solving the crime before someone else--including herself--risks an untimely fate.
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Magic in the Cloister
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a
group of monks with occult interests donated what became a
remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the
library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury.
The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for
the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied
side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the
Cloister , Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the
gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and
ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to
magic texts, works, and how they combined magic with their
intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was
possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with
their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister
contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts
and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
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Walk the wild with me
\"Orphaned when still a toddler, Nicholas Withybeck knows no other home than Locksley Abbey outside Nottingham, England. He works in the scriptorium embellishing illuminated manuscripts with hidden faces of the Wild Folk and whimsical creatures that he sees every time he ventures into the woods and fields. His curiosity leads him into forbidden nooks and crannies both inside and outside the abbey, and he becomes adept at hiding to stay out of trouble. On one of these forays Nick slips into the crypt beneath the abbey. There he finds an altar older than the abbey's foundations, ancient when the Romans occupied England. Behind the bricks around the altar, he finds a palm-sized silver cup. The cup is embellished with the three figures of Elena, the Celtic goddess of crossroads, sorcery, and cemeteries. He carries the cup with him always, listening as the goddess whispers wisdom in the back of his mind. With Elena's cup in his pocket, Nick can see that the masked dancers at the May Day celebration in the local village are actually the creatures of the wood: The Green Man--known to mortals as Little John--and Robin Goodfellow, Herne the Huntsman, dryads, trolls, and water sprites. Theirs are the faces he's seen and drawn into his illuminations. Guided by Elena along secret forest paths, Nick learns that Little John's love has been kidnapped by Queen Mab of the Faeries. The door to the Faery mound will only open when the moons of the two realms align. That time is fast approaching. Nick must release Elena so that she can use sorcery to unlock that door, allowing Nick's band of friends to try to rescue the girl. Will he have the courage to release her as his predecessor did not?\"--Publisher descripton.
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The hills are alive. Episode 3
Christmas comes to Kylemore. The kitchen team prepare some festive treats, the nuns welcome the local community to enjoy their hospitality in the new monastery and there's an insight into Christmas past in the old Abbey. As spring returns, we see how life returns to the garden, woodlands and the pony paddock, while a bunch of lay people sample monastic life at an Easter retreat.
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The wise master builder : platonic geometry in plans of medieval abbeys and cathedrals
The aim of this book is to re-open the debate about the importance of geometry and symbolism in medieval architectural design. It argues the case for attributing an intellectual meaning to the planning of major abbeys and cathedrals.
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The hills are alive. Episode 1
We learn how a group of nuns transformed a crumbling country estate to make it one of Ireland's most popular heritage sites. From the transformation of the pioneering Victorian Walled Garden to developing their own line of soap, we see how the nuns' ingenuity turned Kylemore into a mecca for tourists from all over the world.
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The hills are alive. Episode 2
As Autumn descends on the estate, we see the damage to the woodlands caused by a vicious storm, the garden team are furiously planting bulbs for the following spring, Snowy the pony is scanned for a possible foal and the nuns elect a new Abbess to lead them over the next decade. Advent arrives and we see the great house decorated in Victorian style and learn about the art of Gregorian Chant.
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