{"id":24196,"date":"2025-01-14T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24196"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:37:55","slug":"the-potters-field-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24196","title":{"rendered":"The Potter’s Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Potter’s Field<\/em><\/a> (1989) Ellis Peters<\/a> (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #17)<\/p>\n

\"TheSet in Shrewsbury in 1143.<\/p>\n

“Earth is innocent. Only the use we make of it can mar it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It takes a very short time for earth to seal over the traces of humankind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…he could have his freedom to go and become a monk, but his going didn\u2019t confer freedom on her. She could not take another husband; the one she had, monk or no, was still alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For him whatever God decreed and did, for him or to him, even to his grief and humiliation, even to his life, was done well. Martyrdom would not have changed his mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hugh would always make a wry mock of praise and plaudits, well aware of how narrowly they were separated from the rumblings of reproach that might have greeted him had he lost men<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Brother Cadfael, Abbot Radulfus, Hugh Beringar, Aline Beringar, Giles Beringar, Britric of Ruiton, Brother Ruald, Brother Jerome, Brother Oswin, Brother Paul, Prior Robert, Brother Matthew, Brother Richard, Brother Matthew, Brother Anselm, Brother Ambrose, Brother Winfrid, Brother Urien, Abbot Walter, Brother Daniel, Brother Vitalis, Brother Petrus, Brother Francis, Father Ambrosius, Donata Blount, Eudo Blount, Sulien Blount, Generys, Walter Reynold, Gunnild, Pernel Otmere, Giles Otmere, Robin, John Hind, Master William Rede, Will Warden, Alan Herbard, Nigel Apsley<\/p>\n

Publisher: MysteriousPress<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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