Karl Nunez Nunez itibaren Jefferson
The first in this series takes place in England 1170 during Henry II's reign. The country has been plagued with child torture and murders. The murders are being blamed on the Jews, which if proven, would take a great deal of taxes away from the King. The King would like to find the murderer but has no wherewithal within his court to do so. Sicily and Southern Italy are a nationality diverse country to itself at this time and within it, a world renown school of medicine in Salerno which became the world's doctor. The school didn't have the Pope or the Church's complete approval because eternal laws were broken, dead bodies dissected, women relieved of threatening fetuses, females allowed to practice, the flesh invaded by surgery...but hundreds came to be healed there. Henry II sent a royal letter to the King of Sicily requesting the use of one of his "necromancer's" or Doctor of the Dead...today we would call them a coroner. They happened to send a woman, Adelia. At this time in history, it was unheard of for a woman to be a Doctor...and invading the dead was a sin of the church. Mistress of the Art of Death is well written with researched, interesting medieval medical antidotes. Adelia side steps many of the intolerance to women in this era and almost gets herself murdered in the process. Another page turner.