1095
A city in the grip of crusade fever
Innkeeper Albert dies – minstrel Bertrand asks why
By the author of The Last Conquest and The Last Viking.
On Tuesday, 27th November, 1095, in Clermont, France, Pope Urban II made one of the most important speeches in history: he preached the First Crusade, and unleashed madness. Clermont had been pushed to the extreme of suffering by recent flood, famine, drought, and pestilence. Urban’s speech drove it over the edge. In the midst of the frenzy, innkeeper Albert is found dead. Mayor Arnaud, desperate, asks his friend, the minstrel Bertrand de Montclos, to look into it, in an effort to stop the madness spreading...
Berwick Coates was educated at Kingston Grammar School, and read History at Christ`s College, Cambridge. Since then, he has been, at various times, an army officer, author, artist, lecturer, careers adviser, games coach, drama producer, and teacher of History, English, Latin, General Studies, and Swahili. He has published eighteen books, including two historical novels with Simon and Schuster. He lives in Devon, where he is the Archivist at West Buckland School.
Genre: Historical
A city in the grip of crusade fever
Innkeeper Albert dies – minstrel Bertrand asks why
By the author of The Last Conquest and The Last Viking.
On Tuesday, 27th November, 1095, in Clermont, France, Pope Urban II made one of the most important speeches in history: he preached the First Crusade, and unleashed madness. Clermont had been pushed to the extreme of suffering by recent flood, famine, drought, and pestilence. Urban’s speech drove it over the edge. In the midst of the frenzy, innkeeper Albert is found dead. Mayor Arnaud, desperate, asks his friend, the minstrel Bertrand de Montclos, to look into it, in an effort to stop the madness spreading...
Berwick Coates was educated at Kingston Grammar School, and read History at Christ`s College, Cambridge. Since then, he has been, at various times, an army officer, author, artist, lecturer, careers adviser, games coach, drama producer, and teacher of History, English, Latin, General Studies, and Swahili. He has published eighteen books, including two historical novels with Simon and Schuster. He lives in Devon, where he is the Archivist at West Buckland School.
Genre: Historical
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