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Medieval Secrets & Scandals (Paperback)
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Medieval Secrets & Scandals (Paperback)
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List price R184
Loot Price R146
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You Save R38 (21%)
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What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This
entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the
times and attitudes to 'secrets', and what was meant by a
'scandal'. The series uncovers revelations of spies and plots,
financial scandals, secrets of the royal bedchambers, dynastic
tangles, and the exploits of both villains and so-called saints.
Noble lords and ladies sampled the same pleasures and sometimes met
the same ghastly fate as common criminals. Enemies of the state
plotted and were plotted against, while a horrible fate awaited
those found guilty of treason, hanged, drawn and quartered to the
jeers of the mob. Assassins lurked in alleys, ghoulish body
snatchers opened graves in the dead of night...
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