Dec 27, 2017
Richard, a bastard from Augsburg's immensely rich Fugger family, is raised as novice in a far-way German monastery' school, near his converted Saracene mother Zobeida, but the open-minded abbot's hands are tied when the papal-mandated inquisitor Heinrich Insistoris imposes a reign of heresy-paranoid terror. Zobeida is raped by a frustrated monk, who delivers her to the stake to save his own neck. Grief-maddened, Richard stabs the inquisitor half-blind and flees, but is rescued from death row dungeon by Fugger's discrete minder Eberding, who starts his mundane ...