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...Avignon are battling for ascendancy over the Holy Roman Empire. The Emperor, Louis IV, has sent William to the abbot of a rich and powerful Benedictine monastery in Italy on a mission of conciliation. The Franciscan and Adso arrive at the abbey right after the body of a young monk has been discovered. Suicide or murder is suspected. The abbot, aware of William's skills at detection, persuades him to investigate the death...
...outrageous enough to make their perpetrators seem almost dignified in their raffishness. But forgeries have regularly caused more than empty pockets and red faces. One cut short a poetic career full of brilliant promise. In the 1760s, Thomas Chatterton, a teen-ager from Bristol, England, invented a 15th century monk called Thomas Rowley and wrote medieval-looking manuscripts of inspired poetry under the name. He had hoped to demonstrate his skills under a false identity and then reveal himself as the author when the public's attention was won. Before that could happen, the ruse was detected...
Nevertheless, expert dialogue sustains the novel. Sample the glib openness of Parlabane, whose career has included a bout as a gay, sado-masochistic academic (at Princeton, no less), a stint as a drug trafficker in Greece, and time done in a monastery. Still wearing his monk's habit, he has come back to the university to sponge off his former colleagues, and, of course, to write the modern Proust. Davies blends in Parlabane's speech the erstwhile academic, mincing clergyman, mincing homosexual, and streetwise manipulator...
...Greek Orthodox monk. I am here as a research assistant to the Abbot of my monastery, who is a visiting scholar at the Divinity School...
Diana A. Jarvis '86, a new member of the Harvard chapter, said her persons will be a monk who wanders through England in the 8th century preserving classical manuscripts for posterity. In her studies of the period, Jarvis explained, she has often felt frustrated by the dearth of manuscripts surviving from this time...