Rapture
Maguire, Emily, 1976-2024
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The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman. So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and wisdom and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful - and deadly - currency. And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known - and loved.
Main title:
Rapture / by Emily Maguire.
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Imprint:
Cammeraygal Country, Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2024.
Collation:
310 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781761470899 (paperback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
501506
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