La Abadía de Los Herejes / Abbey of Heretics
La Abadía de Los Herejes / Abbey of Heretics
A historical thriller along the linesof Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Limoux. The year, 1379. After an enigmatic meeting, the Inquisition incarcerates the family of Jean Duver, a humble carpenter, with no apparent motive. Husband and wife aremethodically interrogated, tortured, processed, and convicted of heresy based on skillfully manipulated evidence. Ejean, the Duver's eldest son, returns to his home townafter traveling through Toledo and Barcelona. His friend and neighbor Hug Sabarthés tells him of his parents' tragic fate, and also of the mysterious disappearance of his brothers. Ejean manages to force a confession from three members of the Tribunal who condemned his family, confirming his brothers were forcibly admitted as oblates in San Miquel de Cuixá's monastery. Still hoping to find them, he travels in secret to the abbey and is able to enter with the help of Bardou, a cryptic Benedictine monk. Ejean takes the identity of a monk named Abbal, and is initiated in the knowledge of an unimaginable reality. Captive in a dual monastery, he will learnthe friars conform a silent militia of privileged minds, busily copying, coding, and decrypting all messages intercepted by the web of spies of the anti-Pope o
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A historical thriller along the linesof Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Limoux. The year, 1379. After an enigmatic meeting, the Inquisition incarcerates the family of Jean Duver, a humble carpenter, with no apparent motive. Husband and wife aremethodically interrogated, tortured, processed, and convicted of heresy based on skillfully manipulated evidence. Ejean, the Duver's eldest son, returns to his home townafter traveling through Toledo and Barcelona. His friend and neighbor Hug Sabarthés tells him of his parents' tragic fate, and also of the mysterious disappearance of his brothers. Ejean manages to force a confession from three members of the Tribunal who condemned his family, confirming his brothers were forcibly admitted as oblates in San Miquel de Cuixá's monastery. Still hoping to find them, he travels in secret to the abbey and is able to enter with the help of Bardou, a cryptic Benedictine monk. Ejean takes the identity of a monk named Abbal, and is initiated in the knowledge of an unimaginable reality. Captive in a dual monastery, he will learnthe friars conform a silent militia of privileged minds, busily copying, coding, and decrypting all messages intercepted by the web of spies of the anti-Pope o
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