Cluny Cross: A Mad Medieval Tale

By Mark Blackham

The year is 1089, a time when Muslim armies rule the Middle East, Africa, and Spain. Egyptian fleets dominate the Mediterranean, capturing ports in Italy, Sicily, and France. Christians are in disarray, too busy fighting among themselves. But the growing threat to Christendom, the Domain of Christ, compels them to rally their forces against a terrifying and cunning opponent - Dar Al-Islam, the Domain of Islam.Ramiro of Le n, once a soldier of the faith, is now a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Cluny in southern France, one the most powerful institutions in Europe. But his quiet and peaceful life at the abbey is shattered when the Abbot sends him on a critical mission to Byzantium and Jerusalem, telling him to deliver a curious wooden cross to the Patriarch of Jerusalem.Ramiro sets off with confidence, but his long journey through the Middle East is thwarted again and again by emperors and sultans, assassins and mystics, slave-traders and savages - and a carpenter's daughter who haunts his dreams...Hunted by a Turk warrior, Ramiro rushes into the last leg of his journey only to encounter a new enemy... the bloodthirsty knights of Europe. And when he finally reaches Jerusalem, he is led to the brink of death before he finally discovers the true meaning of the Cluny Cross.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0987787802
• ISBN13: 9780987787804
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Olivewood Publishers
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"