{"id":92,"date":"2002-01-29T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2002-01-29T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=92"},"modified":"2002-01-29T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2002-01-29T22:45:22","slug":"peters_ellis_05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/01\/peters_ellis_05\/","title":{"rendered":"Peters, Ellis: (05) The Leper of Saint Giles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"9173233\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_9173233\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In <strong><cite>The Leper of Saint Giles<\/cite>, Ellis Peters&#8217; fifth Brother Cadfael novel<\/strong>, we get a few more details about Cadfael&#8217;s crusading past. While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m interested enough to read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/0102.html#012602\">honkin&#8217; big history on the Crusades<\/a>, there&#8217;s something strangely evocative about the images Cadfael recalls&#8212;the storming of Jersusalem, Guimar de Massard breaching the gate, the battle of Ascalon against the Fatamids of Egypt, &#8220;Bohemond and Baldwin and Tancred, squabbling like malicious children over their conquests&#8221;&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>The plot centers around the granddaughter of Guimar de Massard, who is being married off against her will to a nasty piece of work&#8212;until he&#8217;s murdered, of course. The story&#8217;s not as intriguing as <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/01\/peters_ellis_06\/\"><cite>The Virgin in the Ice<\/cite><\/a>, but it&#8217;s nice to see Brother Mark again, and these lepers are a lot better company than Thomas Covenant, for certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters&#8217; fifth Brother Cadfael novel, we get a few more details about Cadfael&#8217;s crusading past. While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m interested enough to read a honkin&#8217; big history on the Crusades, there&#8217;s something strangely evocative about the images Cadfael recalls&#8212;the storming of Jersusalem, Guimar de Massard breaching the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/01\/peters_ellis_05\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peters, Ellis: (05) The Leper of Saint Giles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,6],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-brother-cadfael","category-mystery","tag-peters-ellis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}