The Name of the Rose

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Dr. Jack C. J. Wereldsma

Ook Rotterdam is, zoals elke Middeleeuwse stad, een ommuurde vesting geweest. Waar de muren moesten voorkomen dat vijanden binnendrongen - wat niet altijd lukte - en de poorten 's avonds werden gesloten om de bevolking tot de ochtend te vrijwaren van onwelkom bezoek. Maar liefst dertien poorten hebben op enig moment de grenzen van de stad gemarkeerd. Wereldsma schreef eerder het feuilleton 'Laurenskerk in Rotterdam: 10 jaar feuilletons 2002-2012'. Deze publicatie vertelt over de (bouw)geschiedenis van de Grote Sint Laurenskerk en over onder meer de graftomben van Witte Corneliszoon de With en Egbert Cornelis Kortenaer. Daarnaast verdiept Wereldsma zich in reisverslagen, gedichten en zelfs romans van de hand van meer of minder beroemde binnen- en buitenlandse bezoekers. Rotterdam, like every medieval city, has also been a walled fortress. Where the walls had to prevent enemies from entering - which did not always work - and the gates were closed at night to protect the population until the morning from unwelcome visitors. No less than thirteen gates have at any time marked the boundaries of the city. Wereldsma previously wrote the serial 'Laurenskerk in Rotterdam: 10 years of feuilletons 2002-2012'. This publication tells about the (building) history of the Grote Sint Laurenskerk and about the tombs of Witte Corneliszoon de With and Egbert Cornelis Kortenaer. In addition, Wereldsma explores travel reports, poems and even novels by more or less famous visitors from the Netherlands and abroad.

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Ken Follett

In twelfth-century England, amid devastating civil war and religious strife, master builder Tom Builder and Prior Philip dedicate their lives to constructing the greatest Gothic cathedral Europe has ever seen.

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Ken Follett

Two centuries after the completion of Kingsbridge Cathedral, four children witness a lethal secret in the forest. Decades later, they find their town ravaged by the Black Plague and church authoritarianism.

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Evan S. Connell

"The Crusades have begun. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Moslems in the Holy Lands. Battles will continue for the next two hundred years. Every able man becomes a soldier of the Cross. When a man is prevented by old age or ill health, he sends his son. Women, too, join to fight alongside their husbands and fathers. Two centuries long, this common cause is the defining war of what was becoming the spirit of the Western world.". "The author has commented, "I think of this as a book about the Crusades, not an 'historical novel' - a term that suggests imaginary experiences and unlikely conversations. Monologues and dialogues in this book are paraphrased or condensed from those in medieval documents. Every meeting, every conversation, every triumph or defeat, no matter how small, was recorded centuries ago.""--BOOK JACKET.