One with the Father: A Novel of Mysticism, Heresy, and Rebellion in the Middle Ages

When Justin escapes the comfortable medieval estate where his overbearing father has kept him sheltered his whole life, hot in pursuit of the servant girl he has fallen in love with, he finds himself caught up in a social order torn between extremes of wealth and poverty, feudal hierarchy and peasant revolts, ecclesiastical corruption and monastic piety, gross injustices and boundless mercy.

The mid-fourteenth century was a time not only of burgeoning towns, majestic cathedrals, and nascent ...