Cluny Cross: A Mad Medieval Tale

The year is 1089, a time when Muslim armies rule the Middle East, Africa and Spain - and threaten the shores of southern France. Troubled Christians, both East and West, plot to unite forces in the defense of Christendom. And a Benedictine monk by the name of Ramiro is unwittingly thrust into the tempest. The powerful Abbot of Cluny orders Ramiro to Jerusalem on a secret assignment, giving him a mysterious cross to deliver. But his long journey is thwarted by hired assassins, kings and emirs, slave-traders and highwaymen, barbarians and mamluks - and a carpenter’s daughter who haunts his dreams... This epic and exciting tale of adventure sweeps Ramiro from Rome to Byzantium, and from Byzantium to the heart of the Turk Empire. Escaping the Turks, he finally arrives in the troubled Holy Land just before the tragic fall of Jerusalem to the blood-thirsty Crusaders in 1099. And this is time when Ramiro learns the true meaning of the Cluny Cross.