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The year is 1089, a time when Muslim armies rule the Middle East, Africa and Spain. And now threaten the shores of southern France. Troubled Christians, both East and West, plot to unite forces in the defense of Christendom. And a Benedictine monk byMoreThe year is 1089, a time when Muslim armies rule the Middle East, Africa and Spain. And now threaten the shores of southern France. Troubled Christians, both East and West, plot to unite forces in the defense of Christendom. And a Benedictine monk by the name of Ramiro is unwittingly thrust into the tempest.The Abbot of Cluny, a powerful persuader of Popes and Kings, orders Ramiro to Jerusalem on a secret assignment, giving him a mysterious cross to deliver. Ramiro sets off with divine confidence, but his long journey 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... Cluny Cross: A Mad Medieval Tale by Mark Blackham
