![]() ![]() Once she reaches England, she cannot be known as a doctor, lest she be declared a witch and sent to her death. Adelia is a true oddity for her time, a female doctor who is an expert in examining the dead. Galloping to the rescue is the brilliant and brave hero of this fascinating novel, Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar of Salerno, Sicily. To calm the local populace and for their own protection, the Jews of Cambridge have been locked up in a castle, where they are enduring cold and near starvation. He doubts the guilt of the Jews and needs the taxes he collects from their community. A prominent Jew has already been murdered in revenge and a petition has been sent to King Henry II requesting that all Jews be banished from the kingdom.Īhead of his time, the king is a rational man. Children are being murdered and the superstitious locals are convinced that a Jew is to blame for the crimes. ![]() The scene is Cambridge, England in the year 1171. ![]()
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