Cornwell also examines the comparative disadvantage of Christianity in a violent world. That savage opening, by the way, buttresses one of the author’s constant themes-that is, that war is invariably marked by panic and luck, and it is terrible and cruel. And indeed the gorgeous and powerful scene with which Cornwell ( Lords of the North, 2007, etc.) opens this volume is one of the bloodiest passages in the entire epic, but after that nasty bit there is enough peace in Uhtred’s domestic life-pregnant wife and nice Roman villa-that fans will feel ever so slightly rested.
The latest installment of Cornwell’s vastly entertaining and slyly wise saga of life in ninth-century Britain sees the dyspeptic King Alfred’s very young daughter married off to a brute who fancies himself a future monarch.įollowers of this excellent series have stuck with Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the dispossessed pagan nobleman in thrall to the professionally Christian Wessexian monarch, through enough battles and perils for a dozen ordinary men.
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