Harald Parigger
The Kiss of the Lioness
Book
Harald Parigger: The Kiss of the Lioness
Sauerländer
ISBN: 978-3-7941-8057-8
304 pages
Format: 221 x 150 x 32 mm
ISBN: 978-3-7941-8057-8
304 pages
Format: 221 x 150 x 32 mm
EUR (D) 16.90
Harald Parigger
The Kiss of the Lioness
Love in the Time of Leprosy
Regensburg in the year 1259: Mathilda, a merchant’s daughter, is taken ill with leprosy. She is taken to a leprosarium, a lepers’ house, where she is to wait for her death. Johannes, a young monk she meets there, persuades her to join him on a pilgrimage to Rome. As they wend their arduous way to the Eternal City, Mathilde soon comes to realize that what she feels for him is more than just affection. But her love doesn’t stand a chance against Johannes’ faith in God, a painful insight, indeed. So she lets him move on alone... Harald Parigger has written a gripping book about living and suffering in the Middle Ages - and about the power of love.
Regensburg in the year 1259: Mathilda, a merchant’s daughter, is taken ill with leprosy. She is taken to a leprosarium, a lepers’ house, where she is to wait for her death. Johannes, a young monk she meets there, persuades her to join him on a pilgrimage to Rome. As they wend their arduous way to the Eternal City, Mathilde soon comes to realize that what she feels for him is more than just affection. But her love doesn’t stand a chance against Johannes’ faith in God, a painful insight, indeed. So she lets him move on alone... Harald Parigger has written a gripping book about living and suffering in the Middle Ages - and about the power of love.
About Harald Parigger
Harald Parrigger studied History and German. Upon completing his PhD, he worked as a teacher and later at the House of Bavarian History in Munich. Today he is a school principal. He writes children’s books, schoolbooks, historical novels and crime novels for adults that have received numerous prizes.
