A FEIRA DE S. PEDRO (Crónicas do Irmão Cadfael #4) - Um Enigma Medieval

Ellis Peters

Publicações Europa-América

2002

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-13: 9789721049956

Português

[St. Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #4) by Ellis Peters. Tradução de Maria Helena Gonçalves Fernandes] '.' Ano da Graça de 1139. Julho. A Feira de São Pedro é um acontecimento anual em Shrewsbury, com grandes celebrações de carácter comercial e social. Mercadores e compradores vêm de muito longe, de Bristol e até da Europa continental, para fazerem os seus negócios. Mas ainda antes de esta congregação de mercadores se poder reunir já se vê lançada uma amarga disputa entre os burgueses e os intransigentes monges quanto a quem deverá se beneficiar dos privilégios, tributos e impostos que a Feira proporcionará...

Quando os jovens aprendizes do Condado alinham com os burgueses das Corporações de Ofício, estala a discórdia… e um mercador é encontrado morto. As forças da lei iniciam o seu inquérito — e o mesmo faz o Irmão Cadfael (o arguto frade-detective do Mosteiro de Shrewsbury). E, no meio da excitação movimentada da Feira de S. Pedro, da morte misteriosa do mercador e da investigação de Cadfael, está uma jovem bela e tímida que sabe mais do que devia…

Saint Peter's Fair is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in July – September 1139. It is the fourth novel in The Cadfael Chronicles, first published in 1981 (1981 in literature). The story occurs during The Anarchy, in the English town of Shrewsbury. It was adapted for television in 1997 by Central for ITV. |...| "A pause in the civil war offers Shrewsbury's townsfolk hope that the upcoming fair will be successful, but the discovery of the body of a wealthy merchant could destroy that hope".

[Historical Plot introduction from Wikipedia]'.' It is late July 1139, during The Anarchy. The country is torn by strife between King Stephen and his cousin Empress Maud. Robert of Gloucester is half brother to the Empress, and is with her in Normandy. King Stephen has the advantage now, while Empress Maud has strongholds in the west of England. From abroad she is building support for a renewed attempt on the throne. Ranulf, Earl of Chester, is married to a daughter of Robert of Gloucester. Earl Ranulf is powerful in his own right, and has not yet chosen to stand with one or the other in this war for the crown of England. Hoping they have peace now the Castle is aligned with King Stephen, the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey prepare for the three-day annual fair in honour of their namesake saint, held on the feast of Saint Peter ad Vinculum'.'