Sacred Bones: Confessions of a Medieval Grave Robber, by Michael Spring
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Sacred Bones is based on the true story of Deusdona (“God’s gift”), a ninth-century Roman deacon who worked in the catacombs, digging up worthless bones and selling them off as the holy remains of saints and martyrs. Deusdona thanked God for his worldly success, but he was also a clever businessman who knew how to strike deals with abbots and kings. It didn’t hurt that no church could be sanctified without a relic in residence, and that the more relics a church displayed, the more pilgrims came to visit with their coins and their prayers.Deusdona was a Willy Loman of the Dark Ages, trafficking in bones. Every spring, when the snows melted from the Alpine passes, he traveled north with his “samples” – arms, cheek bones, toes – filling orders from the previous summer and drumming up business for the year to come.Whether he is floating in the buff in Charlemagne’s baths or gathering body parts in Rome’s underground City of the Dead, Deusdona offers us a vivid portrait of daily life in the early Middle Ages at an early stage in the transformation of ancient Rome into the City of God.Sacred Bones is both a medieval whodunit and a wry portrait of an age that has seldom been brought to life in such detail. Readers will relish the chance to immerse themselves in this oddly contemporary world.
Sacred Bones: Confessions of a Medieval Grave Robber, by Michael Spring- Amazon Sales Rank: #2116028 in Books
- Brand: Spring, Michael
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .60" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
About the Author Michael Spring was born in New York City in 1941. He has degrees in English Literature from Haverford and Columbia University. After his junior year in college he spent ten months hitching around the world. On his return, he worked for more than two decades as editorial director of Fodor’s Travel Guides and publisher and vice-president of Frommer's Travel. He and his wife Janis have written three books together — After the Affair (HarperCollins), How Can I Forgive You? (HarperCollins) and Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent (Penguin). They live in Westport, CT.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Good Grave Robber... By eCid Sacred Bones is one of the very few first-person narratives of which I‘m aware that totally convinces you as the reader that you are personally experiencing the world of the narrator—and what an experience that is: Deusdona is an endearing and captivatingly sincere rascal who trades in bones he dredges up in the ancient catacombs of Rome. The place is the recently Christianized Europe of the 9th century whose ingenuous former pagans are eager for a guarantee to salvation under the newest religion through ownership of the remains of saints, martyrs and other holies. If the bones Deusdona passes off to a church prelate as the brittle finger of holy Saint Ursula is actually the tail joint of a catacomb rodent, what really matters is the buyer’s faith that the holy remains will provide a necessary relic to sanctify his church. No matter that there may be dozens of churches in the region containing Saint Ursula’s "true" finger.But Deusdona is a conman with a conscience. He has a very personal relationship with the bones he knows to be authentic of Peter the exorcist and Marcellinus the priest, two martyrs who died under Emperor Diocletian. He is particularly close to Peter’s bones and asks his bodyless friend to intercede with God and explain to the deity that Deusdona’s good outweighed the evil and his days were spent in His service, bringing faith to a fallen world.This is a wonderfully written little gem of a book and a real original that, apparently has not received the notice it richly deserves. In the process of giving the reader an eye-opening view of Rome just after the Caesars, it provides many LOL moments as this rascally super salesman works his way across a barely civilized Europe.Highly recommended.Also recommending Sacred Bones is Patrick Geary, professor of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, former president of the Medieval Academy of America, and Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California. He says of the book:“A very warm, lively historical novel—the best ever written on the subject of relic thieves—I look forward to recommending it to all my colleagues and friends.”
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. SPRING AWAKENING By John Lahr Springs passion for his story and his unreliable and delightfully venal narrator propelled me past any cavils; I was completely> caught up in the play of erudition and affection he has for for the> character. There are just so many felicities of> phrase and observation. I found myself underlining them with my Stablo: my> book looks like an FBI file! My favorite: "God is our strength and our> shield, but it helps to have a sword." The book is very funny.("One of the> Virgin's he touched gave birth to a frog". ) Bosch and his warped world of> course kept flickering in the back of my mind. And when I hit a line about> Dionysus--"In Rome, I couldn't give Dionysius away", I laughed out loud. What lingers is not the well-marshalled> esoteric info; but the rhythm of good sentences which carry the wallop> of fresh observation--and their own indubitable poetry. "We climbed slowly> into a blind, mineral world, seasonless, where nothing seemed to bloom or> fade." Beautiful.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Delightful Historical Novel By Otten Spring has chosen an unusual perspective to view the times of Charlemagne and a fast growing Church. He picks a salesman of relics to portray a tradesman view of medieval life. His style is engaging and filled with serious humor. "Abbots and emperors, with their insatiable lust for relics and their blind, superstitious faith in bones and sacred dust, bought virtually everything I offered them: Matthew’s earlobe, John’s kneecap, Mary’s nose.... It didn’t hurt that I was a Roman citizen in the employ of the Church. It gave me a competitive edge." While just a bit cynical, our hero rationalizes his deceptions as honest in that they encouraged real faith and inspired a fair share of genuine 'miracles.'
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