Death in the Cloisters

Death in the Cloisters
Author: Valentina Morelli
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2023-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8728062574

The heavenly peace of the monastery of Santa Caterina is under threat: construction work in the old walls is making quiet comtemplation almost impossible. There’s something a little peculiar about the new nun, Sister Donna, too. Before Sister Isabella can get to the heart of Sister Donna’s oddities, she’s found dead in the cloisters. The nuns are terrified and fear for their lives. Can Sister Isabella and Carabiniere Matteo find the kill before another disaster...? But there are bigger fish to fry than Donna's odd behaviour. The convent is undergoing renovations and Isabella has to supervise them. And as if that wasn’t enough, an unexpected guest has arrived - Gina Bellucci. Is she really seeking a getaway of peace and contemplation or is there more to her than meets the eye? Something is definitely afoot... But before Sister Isabella can get to the bottom of it, there's a murder Monastery, Murder and Dolce Vita - a crime series like a holiday under the Italian sun. Fans of Richard Osman's 'Thursday Murder Club' will love this humorous cosy crime read. Benvenuto a Santa Caterina! This picturesque village in the heart of Tuscany is where Sister Isabella lives and works. But out of the blue, she suddenly finds herself investigating a murder case! From then on, this curious nun makes it her life's work to solve the crimes, large and small, that are committed in the village. Carabiniere Matteo is grateful for this heavenly help, because after all, as Santa Caterina's only policeman, he has his hands full... Valentina Morelli is a bestelling German author. With the Sister Isabella Series, she pays homage to her spiritual homeland and captures the unique feel of life in Tuscany. For her, murder mysteries are the true way of telling human stories.

Death at the Cloisters

Death at the Cloisters
Author: Randolph Mase
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491749946

The bodies of two lovers are found early one morning hanging from the ceiling of a chapel at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Cloisters. Shortly thereafter, private investigator Matthew Hogan joins forces with his long-time friend Tom Walker of NYPD in the investigation. With the help of his love interest, attorney Kathy Russell, Hogan searches for and discovers several clues near the scene of the murder. The evidence, and interviews with friends and neighbors of the victims, leads Hogan into the dark world of revenge. As he pursues each lead and gets closer to the truth, the real danger escalates, culminating in a climactic showdown in Greenwich Village. You wont want to miss this one!

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Jerusalem, 1000–1400
Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-09-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588395987

Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.

Death in Holy Orders

Death in Holy Orders
Author: P. D. James
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571247016

When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of coast in East Anglia, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death. Commander Adam Dalgliesh agrees to pay a visit to the young man's theological college, St Anselm's, a place he knew as a boy, expecting no more than a nostalgic return to old haunts and a straightforward examination of the evidence. Instead he finds himself embroiled in intrigue, secrets and mystery as the college is torn apart by a sacrilegious and horrifying murder . . . Award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men) masterfully explores an isolated and beleaguered community coping with the evil and disruption of murder. In 2003, this novel was adapted for BBC television and starred Martin Shaw, Hugh Fraser and Robert Hardy. Set on the wild coast of East Anglia, this number one bestseller is the fourteenth Adam Dalgliesh novel and a thrilling work of crime fiction possessing all of the qualities which distinguish P. D. James as a novelist.

Murder in the Cloister

Murder in the Cloister
Author: Tania Bayard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781448309160

Scribe Christine de Pizan is sent to the Priory of Poissy by the palace, but soon senses that something is amiss. The prioress reveals that one of the sisters was murdered in the cloister. Fearing for the welfare of the king's daughter who resides at the abbey, she is eager for Christine to find out who killed the young nun.

Gate of Death

Gate of Death
Author: Chris DeSantis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913833121

Humanity's timeless quest for immortality-we couldn't discover the secrets of eternal life for ourselves, so we bestowed immortality on our gods. But what if these secrets exist and have been sought by world leaders for thousands of years, only recently having fallen into the hands of the global elite? When the Director of Security for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anthony Leonardi, and Special Officer Vicki Lange find themselves pulled into a clandestine worldwide network after a mysterious death at the museum, their lives are changed forever. Anthony and Vicki soon find themselves in the middle of an underground web of intrigue pitting religious organizations, criminal syndicates, secret societies, and the world's most powerful people against one another in a race for global domination and immortality☥ Fans of treasure hunts, masterworks of art, covert underground societies, and eye-opening secrets of the ancients will love this engrossing story of action, adventure, and rituals...

The Cloisters of Iona Abbey

The Cloisters of Iona Abbey
Author: Ewan Mathers
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781901557602

A collection of photographs depicting the carvings of the restored cloisters, with text reflecting on the meaning of each design and information about the flora and fauna of the Isle of Iona and beyond which most of the carvings represent. This use of symbols from the natural world reflects the close links of the early Celtic Christians with the land around them. Ewan Mathers, a frequent visitor to Iona since childhood, observed the newly rebuilt cloisters being transformed over thirty years from rough pillars of sandstone to a complete, unified work of art. From his own obsession with the carvings and conversations with their main creator, Chris Hall, has emerged the concept of cloisters as a labyrinth, the winding circular pathway of ancient mythology, the purpose of which was to effect a change of consciousness.

The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages

The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages
Author: Elina Gertsman
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Elina Gertsman's multifaceted study introduces readers to the imagery and texts of the Dance of Death, an extraordinary subject that first emerged in western European art and literature in the late medieval era. Conceived from the start as an inherently public image, simultaneously intensely personal and widely accessible, the medieval Dance of Death proclaimed the inevitability of death and declared the futility of human ambition. Gertsman inquires into the theological, socio-historic, literary, and artistic contexts of the Dance of Death, exploring it as a site of interaction between text, image, and beholder. Pulling together a wide variety of sources and drawing attention to those images that have slipped through the cracks of the art historical canon, Gertsman examines the visual, textual, aural, pastoral, and performative discourses that informed the creation and reception of the Dance of Death, and proposes different modes of viewing for several paintings, each of which invited the beholder to participate in an active, kinesthetic experience.