Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon volume 10
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton surgeon volume 10
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Many medieval scholars discontinued their university studies before completing their degree. Some did so because of a lack of funds, others because they were bored with a scholar's life. Occasionally these young men formed lawless bands, robbing, and raping and creating chaos. They were called goliards. On learning that an old friend has been killed while travelling to Oxford, Hugh de Singleton, discovers the presence of a band of goliards in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lion
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alan, the beadle of the manor of Bampton, had gone out at dusk to seek those who might violate curfew. When, the following morning, he had still not returned home, his young wife Matilda sought out Master Hugh de Singleton, surgeon and bailiff of the manor. Two days later Alan's corpse is discovered in the hedge, at the side of the track to St. Andrew's Chapel. His throat has been torn out, his head half-severed from his body and his face, hands,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
King Charles of France has announced that he is confiscating Aquitaine, and Prince Edward has sent for knights and men at arms from England to assist him in opposing the French king. Lord Gilbert Talbot is required to provide five knights, twelve squires, and twenty archers and men at arms, and wishes his surgeon - Hugh de Singleton - to travel with the party, while Hugh's wife Kate will oversee the castle. Among the party will be Sir Simon Trillowe,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Hugh lands his first job as a surgeon after successfully treating Lord Gilbert's injuries from a horse, and works as an amateur sleuth to solve the mysteries of multiple sets of bones found at Lord Gilbert's castle and a nobleman's disappearance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Monarch
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Hugh de Singleton, surgeon in the medieval village of Bampton, is called in when a valuable stolen book is turns up alongside the drowned body of a poor Oxford scholar. The investigation leads him to Kate, the only woman who has tempted him to leave bachelor life behind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Master Hugh is making his way towards Oxford when he discovers the young Benedictine - a fresh body, barefoot - not half a mile from the nearby abbey. The abbey's novice master confirms the boy's identity: John, one of three novices. But he had gone missing four days previously, and his corpse is fresh. There has been plague in the area, but this was not the cause of death: the lad has been stabbed in the back. To Hugh's sinking heart, the abbot has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Another slice of medieval skullduggery from the surgeon-turned-sleuth Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry--with his current wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants--has outstayed his welcome at Bampton. The next morning, Sir Henry is found dead, eyes open, in his bed. Master Hugh, despite...
Author
Series
Publisher
Monarch
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It is the autumn of 1367. Master Hugh is enjoying the peaceful life of Bampton when a badly beaten man is found under the porch of St. Andrews Chapel. The dying man is a chapman--a traveling merchant. Before he is buried in the chapel grounds, an ancient, corroded coin is found in the mans mouth. Master Hughs quest for the chapmans assailants, and his search for the origin of the coin, begins to make progress--but there are men of wealth and power...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hugh is called in when the body of Alan, beadle of the medieval manor of Bampton, is discovered with his throat torn out, and his face, hands, and forearms lacerated with deep scratches. The coroner surmises that a wolf caused the great wound, yet Hugh wonders ... why was there so little blood?
In Interlibrary Loans
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Coastline Library Network can be requested from other Interlibrary Loans libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request