Title: A Rare Benedictine
Subtitle: The Advent of Brother Cadfael
Description: These three short stories form a prequel to the Ellis Peters series featuring Brother Cadfael, a medieval monk detective.  The first story describes the circumstances around Brother Cadfael’s decision to renounce his former life and become a monk. The second and third stories give Brother Cadfael the opportunity to solve mysteries that occur at Shrewsbury Abbey in the years just preceding the first full-length Brother Cadfael novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Monks, History, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), Herbalists, Pictorial works, Mönchtum, Abbaye Saint-Benoît d'En-Calcat, Cadfael, brother (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Fiction, religious, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
Places: Shrewsbury (England), Great Britain, Shropshire (England), England, Shrewsbury
People: Henry I
Time periods: 1120, 1135-1137, Stephen 1135-1154, Stephen, 1135-1154