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13 May 07 - 03:54 AM (#2050424) Subject: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT Anyone who likes Ellis Peters sort of mysteries might like My Lady Judge by Cora Harrison. Review here. |
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13 May 07 - 04:07 AM (#2050435) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: Liz the Squeak Sounds interesting although the review writer seems to have been using a book of stock phrases. I might give it a go should I find it in paperback somewhere. LTS |
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13 May 07 - 04:15 AM (#2050439) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT It's newly published, so you're unlikely to find it in paperback - somewhere or anywhere - LizThe. |
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13 May 07 - 04:20 AM (#2050441) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: Liz the Squeak ~It'll go on my book list - I don't buy hardbacks as they play havoc with my RSI. LTS |
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13 May 07 - 08:58 AM (#2050604) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT There are also reviews of Joseph O'Connor's new book, Redemption Falls, Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy, The Secret of My Face by Karen Ardiff, Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, and more or less every bestseller of the last year, by the way. |
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13 May 07 - 10:55 AM (#2050658) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: katlaughing Well, it'll have to be really good to measure up to Sister Fidelma, but I'll give it a try. Thanks! |
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13 May 07 - 06:44 PM (#2050939) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT Looked up Sister F and they sound like good fun. The Cora Harrison one's set about 1,000 years later, in 16th-century Ireland, but still under the Brehon legal system, which is very like the Scandinavian system, with compensation paid for killings except a secret murder, etc. |
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15 May 07 - 06:11 AM (#2052170) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,Cora Harrison I wrote the book because of my fascination with Brehon law and my amazement that it was still functioning at a time when, in Tudor England, such savage and merciless punishments were being used. I was really interested to hear that it is like the Scandinavian system. I hadn't known that. |
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15 May 07 - 08:38 AM (#2052262) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT Congratulations, Cora - surprise to see you posting here!!! Yes, if you read any of the Scandinavian sagas you find people paying an eric for a death, you find the same prohibition against secret killing, you find that divorce is correct if it's announced at the marriage bed using a specific formula, etc. |
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16 May 07 - 04:03 AM (#2053221) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT Here's a link to the Laxdaela Saga, thought to have been written by a woman. It's a bit fiddly the way the page is set up with links to the separate chapters, but it'll give you a taste of the style: http://omacl.org/Laxdaela/ |
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16 May 07 - 09:25 AM (#2053446) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST Many thanks, I'll check it out. You might like to look at my site: www.coraharrison.com It gives the first few chapters of My Lady Judge and quite a bit about Brehon law. I hope this book will arouse interest, not only in Brehon law but in the very beautiful Burren landscape. C. |
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16 May 07 - 10:05 AM (#2053539) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT Yes, the Burren is extraordinary, like a moonscape; it must have been even more so in the heavily forested Ireland of the 16th century. |
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16 May 07 - 10:23 AM (#2053567) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: katlaughing After all of these years I still love Mudcat so much! Here we have the very author coming in to share with us. Welcome Cora and thanks for sharing! Re' Sister Fidelma, if you click on the GUIDE/FAQS on this page, there is quite a lot about the ancient law system, etc. from the seventh century. It is interesting to hear Brehon law was still functioning so many centuries later. Thanks, JTT and Cora, kat |
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17 May 07 - 12:50 PM (#2054754) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST this was what fascinated me because, like most Irish school children I learned Brehon law as something that was around in the time of St Patrick, 5th century, but when I came to live here near the Burren and I saw the ruined remains of Cahermacnaghten law school and realised that this law school was not only functioning in the mid-sixteenth century, but also becoming an important repository of the ancient Brehon laws - this amazed me. It was said that even the English/Anglo Normans of the east of Ireland used Brehon law 'as and when it doth benefit them.' |
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19 May 07 - 06:10 AM (#2056275) Subject: RE: BS: Irish medieval thriller From: GUEST,JTT The Irish cottage on Cora's website is verra nice indeed! Not what I've found when mooching desirously on daft.ie in clare. |