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15 produkter
15 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
249 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
249 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
306 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
223 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
225 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2017
249 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
249 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
249 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
157 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
228 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2021
210 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
210 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
368 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
228 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
155 kr
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Sacred Bones is based on the true story of Deusdona ("God's gift"), a ninth-century Roman deacon who worked in the catacombs, digging up worthless bones and selling them off as the holy remains of saints and martyrs. Deusdona thanked God for his worldly success, but he was also a clever businessman who knew how to strike deals with abbots and kings. It didn't hurt that no church could be sanctified without a relic in residence, and that the more relics a church displayed, the more pilgrims came to visit with their coins and their prayers. Deusdona was a Willy Loman of the Dark Ages, trafficking in bones. Every spring, when the snows melted from the Alpine passes, he traveled north with his "samples" -- arms, cheek bones, toes -- filling orders from the previous summer and drumming up business for the year to come. Whether he is floating in the buff in Charlemagne's baths or gathering body parts in Rome's underground City of the Dead, Deusdona offers us a vivid portrait of daily life in the early Middle Ages at an early stage in the transformation of ancient Rome into the City of God.Sacred Bones is both a medieval whodunit and a wry portrait of an age that has seldom been brought to life in such detail. Readers will relish the chance to immerse themselves in this oddly contemporary world.