De ommegang

Locked in a dark dungeon, Isidorus recounts his life to a fellow prisoner he never sees. Orphaned and raised by monks in England, he devoured the books in their library, developed a prodigious memory, and became both a doctor and an architect. His wanderings led him through Oxford, Paris, Bologna and Trebizond, then along the Silk Road to Samarkand and China, where he dreamed of raising a building of unrivalled beauty. In Italy, early in 1415, an encounter turns his life around, and he heads for Konstanz, where kings and cardinals are meeting to settle the fate of Christendom.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

627 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

United Kingdom, Italy, China, Uzbekistan, Germany, 15th century

First published

2018 by Querido

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789021403939 (original)