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The Devil to Pay: The Story of Alice and Petronilla
Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan
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Description for The Devil to Pay: The Story of Alice and Petronilla
Paperback. The story of Alice Kyteler, wealthy patron in medieval Kilkenny, and the first witch trial in Ireland. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 364.
Kilkenny, 1324. Alice Kyteler, outspoken daughter of a wealthy Flemish banker, has survived four husbands and is beset by the gossip and rivalry of a medieval Anglo-Norman town. Her beautiful maid is Petronilla, child of an itinerant shoemaker, her lover Sir Arnaud le Poer is seneschal and lord of south Leinster. Her nemesis is Richard de Ledrede, English Fransciscan, scholar, poet and now bishop of Ossory, determined to reassert clerical power and restore the dilapidated cathedral. To him Alice embodies the moral laxity of the age, her irreverence and knowlege of healing feeding his anger and obsession with witchcraft. Outside ... Read more
Kilkenny, 1324. Alice Kyteler, outspoken daughter of a wealthy Flemish banker, has survived four husbands and is beset by the gossip and rivalry of a medieval Anglo-Norman town. Her beautiful maid is Petronilla, child of an itinerant shoemaker, her lover Sir Arnaud le Poer is seneschal and lord of south Leinster. Her nemesis is Richard de Ledrede, English Fransciscan, scholar, poet and now bishop of Ossory, determined to reassert clerical power and restore the dilapidated cathedral. To him Alice embodies the moral laxity of the age, her irreverence and knowlege of healing feeding his anger and obsession with witchcraft. Outside ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843511793
SKU
V9781843511793
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About Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan
Hugh Ryan is author of five previous novels, The Kybe (1980) Ancestral Voices, On Borrowed Ground, Reprisal and In the Shadow of the Ombu Tree (2005), set variously in Napoleonic Ireland and seventeenth-century Uruguay. He is a native of Skerries in north county Dublin, and is also an accomplished artist whose drawings form the headpieces to the chapters of this ... Read more
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