The Devil's Novice

Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497671248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
From the Edgar Award–winning author: When a troubled novice is blamed for a priest’s disappearance, Brother Cadfael seeks to save his soul—and his life. Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud, secretive nineteen-year-old novice. Brother Cadfael has never seen two men more estranged than the Lord of Aspley and Meriet, the son he coldly delivers to the abbey to begin a religious vocation. Meriet, meek by day, is so racked by dreams at night that his howls earn him the nickname “the Devil’s Novice.” Shunned and feared, Meriet is soon linked to the missing priestly emissary’s dreadful fate. Only Brother Cadfael believes in Meriet’s innocence, and only the good sleuth can uncover the truth before a boy’s pure passion, not evil intent, leads a novice to the noose.

Not A Novice

Author: Dag Heward-Mills
Publisher: Parchment House
ISBN: 1683987136
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
A novice is new to something; he is a beginner. God is not someone newly appointed or newly created. There is nothing about God that makes Him new. He is the beginning! God has existed for all time. He is the Lord God Almighty, the everlasting Lord. We are the ones who are likely to be novices. We are the ones making new discoveries every day. A novice is open to many dangers like pride. It is the pride of a novice that causes him to lift himself up against authorities that have been established for years. Lucifer was a novice who was condemned because of his pride! He fell into “the condemnation of the devil”. Lucifer’s greatest mistake was that he did not have a proper estimate of himself in relation to God. Through these thought-provoking chapters, may you take the teachings on the pride of a novice with all seriousness, lest you live to fulfill every single point in this book to your own undoing and condemnation. Be delivered from every danger of a novice!

The Devil's Novice

Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780751524499
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Languages : en
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Expository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament ... By the Rev. William Burkitt ... To this Edition Will be Added, the Life of the Author, Etc. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]

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Languages : en
Pages : 1410

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The Minnesota Quarterly

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Languages : en
Pages : 724

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The Witchcraft Sourcebook

Author: Brian P. Levack
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415195063
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
This collection of trial records, laws, treatises, sermons, speeches, woodcuttings, paintings and literary texts illustrates how contemporaries from various periods have perceived alleged witches and their activities.

The Devil's Novice

Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
ISBN: 9780688032470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
In the year 1140, Peter Clemence, a political envoy on a mission to help prevent the dismemberment of England, is found murdered and suspicion centers on Meriet Aspley, a young novice in Brother Cadfael's abbey

The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

Author: Heinrich Institoris
Publisher: Book Tree
ISBN: 9781585090983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Devil Aspect

Author: Craig Russell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
Steeped in the folklore of Eastern Europe, and set in the shadow of Nazi darkness erupting just beyond the Czech border, this bone-chilling, richly imagined novel is propulsively entertaining, and impossible to put down. "A wildly entertaining story...Russell has created a truly frightening story." —The New York Times Book Review Czechoslovakia, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a newly trained psychiatrist who studied under Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle surrounded by forests, on a site that is well known for concealing dark secrets going back many centuries. The asylum houses six inmates--the country's most treacherous killers--known to the terrified public as the Devil's Six. Viktor intends to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon he calls The Devil Aspect. Yet as he begins to learn the stunning secrets of these patients, he must face the unnerving possibility that these six may share a darker truth. Meanwhile, in Prague, fear grips the city as a phantom serial killer emerges in the dark alleys. Police investigator Lukas Smolak, desperate to locate the culprit (a copycat of Jack the Ripper), turns to Viktor and the doctors at Hrad Orlu for their expertise with the psychotic criminal mind. And Viktor finds himself wrapped up in a case more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

The Novice's Tale

Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110165144X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Unholy passions and demonic deaths... In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for her amusement. She demands wine, a feast.... And her niece, the angelic Thomasine. The lady desires to enrich herself and her reputation by arranging a marriage for the devout novice. She cares nothing for the panic and despair she leaves behind her. But all her cruel and cunning schemes are brought to a sudden end with strange and most unnatural murder. As suspicious eyes turn on the pious Thomasine, it falls to Sister Frevisse, hosteler of the priory and amateur detective, to unravel the webs of unholy passion and dark intrigue that entangle the novice and prove her innocence...or condemn her.