Troubadour

By - Mary Hoffman

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Bloomsbury, London, 2009

ISBN 10 - 0747592519

ISBN 13 - 9780747592518

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Middle Ages

Shelf No - 8

Call Number - 823.914 HOF

Physical Description - 293 pages ; 21 cm

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A story of persecution and poetry, love and war set in 13th-century Southern France. A troubadour, Bertran, witnesses the brutal murder of the Pope's legate and risks his life to warn others of the war that he knows is certain to follow this act. The lands of the peaceable Cathars - deemed heretics - are now forfeit and under threat from Crusaders who have been given authority by the Pope to take the Cathar domains by force. But the Pope is trying to track Bertran down and so is somebody else: Elinor, a young noblewoman, in love with Bertran but facing a loveless arranged marriage, flees her family and becomes a minstrel herself. Soon both Bertran and Elinor find themselves enveloped in a rising tide of bloodshed that threatens the very fabric of their society.

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