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The Case of the Reluctant Novice (A Mother Phillipa Mystery)

Elizabeth M. Makowski

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Description:In the first quarter of the fourteenth century, disaster laid siege to the north of England. Savage raids on the Scottish frontier competed with unprecedented winter cold and rains that flooded fields, devastated harvests, and ushered widespread famine into the countryside. As abbess of the Benedictine monastery of St. Margaret, Mother Phillipa struggles to sustain her small band of nuns in these extraordinary times, while continuing to balance the often conflicting claims of popes, bishops, patrons and disgruntled religious.In The Case of the Reluctant Novice, Mother Phillipa finds herself forced to confront the consequences of still other hostile threats; the more ordinary but equally devastating forces of hatred, greed, and an all-consuming thirst for revenge. Daughter of a renowned lawyer and widow of a knight slain in the Scottish wars, Mother Phillipa brings her uncommon knowledge of the law, as well as her experience of human nature, to bear in solving the riddle of a young woman’s grisly and untimely death.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Case of the Reluctant Novice (A Mother Phillipa Mystery). To get started finding The Case of the Reluctant Novice (A Mother Phillipa Mystery), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the first quarter of the fourteenth century, disaster laid siege to the north of England. Savage raids on the Scottish frontier competed with unprecedented winter cold and rains that flooded fields, devastated harvests, and ushered widespread famine into the countryside. As abbess of the Benedictine monastery of St. Margaret, Mother Phillipa struggles to sustain her small band of nuns in these extraordinary times, while continuing to balance the often conflicting claims of popes, bishops, patrons and disgruntled religious.In The Case of the Reluctant Novice, Mother Phillipa finds herself forced to confront the consequences of still other hostile threats; the more ordinary but equally devastating forces of hatred, greed, and an all-consuming thirst for revenge. Daughter of a renowned lawyer and widow of a knight slain in the Scottish wars, Mother Phillipa brings her uncommon knowledge of the law, as well as her experience of human nature, to bear in solving the riddle of a young woman’s grisly and untimely death.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Case of the Reluctant Novice (A Mother Phillipa Mystery). To get started finding The Case of the Reluctant Novice (A Mother Phillipa Mystery), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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