The gallows curse
By: Karen Maitland
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
ISBN-13: 9780718156350; 9780718156343
Subjects: Fiction; Superstition; History; Gallows; Religious communities
Description: 1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin.