Brother Cadfael · Book 5
The Leper of Saint Giles
- Published
- 1 January 1981
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9781569382677
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Leper of Saint Giles, the fifth book in the series, was published in 1981 at 226 pages. It continues Ellis Peters's project of rendering Shrewsbury Abbey and Cadfael's monastic life with real medieval-history rigor, set against the ongoing backdrop of the Stephen-and-Maud civil war that runs through the series.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Leper of Saint Giles is book 5 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows Saint Peter's Fair. It is followed by The Virgin in the Ice. See the full Brother Cadfael reading order.
Brother Cadfael is a Benedictine monk at Shrewsbury Abbey in 1120s-1140s England who came to the cloister late in life, after decades as a Crusader, sailor and soldier of fortune — worldly experience that makes him the abbey's herbalist, its most perceptive judge of character, and its de facto detective whenever a body turns up on abbey grounds or in the surrounding Shropshire countryside. Working alongside (and sometimes at odds with) the local sheriff's officers, Cadfael investigates murders set against the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446404372
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781569382677