The Summer of the Danes
Edition: Reprint edition
Series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, 18
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: August 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9789994465583
Subjects: History; Shrewsbury (England); Stephen, 1135-1154; Fiction; Great Britain
First sentence: them, whether from exhaustion or policy, and a strange calm had settled over the country, almost peace. In the Fens, the raging outlaw Geoffrey de Mandeville, every man's enemy, was still at liberty, but a liberty constricted by the king's new encircling fortresses, and increasingly vulnerable.