{"id":10977,"date":"2018-08-05T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=10977"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:20:01","slug":"monks-hood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10977","title":{"rendered":"Monk’s Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monk’s Hood<\/a><\/em> (1980) Ellis Peters<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Set in England in 1138.<\/p>\n

A blind eye is the easiest thing in the world to turn on whatever is troublesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He felt in his heart that that was sin, the sin of despair; not despair for himself, but despair of truth and justice and right, and the future of wretched mankind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monk’s Hood (1980) Ellis Peters Set in England in 1138. A blind eye is the easiest thing in the world to turn on whatever is troublesome. Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. He felt in his heart that that was sin, the sin of despair; not despair for himself, but despair of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,190,33,8,41],"tags":[120,119,549,877,878],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-cozy","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","tag-brother-cadfael","tag-ellis-peters","tag-high-middle-ages","tag-medieval","tag-the-anarchy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2R3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6113,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6113","url_meta":{"origin":10977,"position":0},"title":"Monk’s Hood","author":"Michelle","date":"October 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Monk's Hood (1980) Ellis Peters","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23703,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23703","url_meta":{"origin":10977,"position":1},"title":"Monk’s Hood","author":"Michelle","date":"June 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Monk's Hood (1980) Ellis Peters (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #3) Set in England in 1138 The tide of civil war between King Stephen and the partisans of the Empress Maud had receded into the southwestern borders, leaving Shrewsbury to recover cautiously from having backed the weaker side and paid a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "9\/10"","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Monk's Hood","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Monks-Hood.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11254,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11254","url_meta":{"origin":10977,"position":2},"title":"The Raven in the Foregate","author":"Michelle","date":"November 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Raven in the Foregate (1986) Ellis Peters Set in England in 1141 The 12th Brother Cadfael mystery finds the war between Maud and Stephen again shifted, this time in favor of Stephen, and the political machinations have reached to Shrewsbury when a new priest is sent for the town.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Raven-in-the-Foregate-e1511011428360.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6116,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6116","url_meta":{"origin":10977,"position":3},"title":"The Leper of Saint Giles","author":"Michelle","date":"October 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Leper of Saint Giles (1981) Ellis Peters Set in England in 1139. 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