Tellen Song, or the education ofWilhelm Tell, released Ch...
Tellen Song, or the education ofWilhelm Tell, released Christmas, 2015.
Publishing the story of the WilliamTell — part legend, part history — was something of a Christmasgift to myself.
I happened across an article some yearsago that tried valiantly to outline how much was myth and how muchtrue story. An heroic attempt but one that didn’t succeed entirely,nor do I think the author thought he would. Too much is lost in themists of time. It has been over 700 years after all.
Yes, the Battle of Morgarten, one ofthe precipitating events to the founding of Switzerland, occurred inNovember, 1315 AD. That’s certainly a verifiable event. (Though,even here there is some controversy among historians.) And yet, thereis so much that is ill-known about how the country we now callSwitzerland came to be.
That shouldn’t be surprising. It wasa very long time ago, and in an area where written records were notthe norm. But there are other reasons, some of which are possibly ofinterest to an English-reading audience, most of whom pay littleattention to Switzerland (like most of the world).
One major factor in that uncertainty isthe sheer complexity of German politics of the period. The late13th-early 14th centuries were a time of anarray of mind-boggling competition among power-lusting individuals,families, and factions.
That extended from north, east, andwest of what is now Switzerland down to Lombardy (northern Italy) andbeyond. The rulers of the badly-named Holy Roman Empire had beenmessing about not only in central and south Europe for generationsbut all throughout Italy, too.
You’d think the Alpine mountainranges would’ve cut them off at the pass, but the St. Gotthard andothers helped open up Italy not only to trade but to the usual rapinefrom men who want want others have produced.
And that brings us back to Tellen Song,which covers a great deal of this history, grasping and factionalfighting, and a fair amount of more personal events — both real andinvented.
Give it a few minutes exploration,please. Read the blurb. Download and read the sample. Let me knowwhat you think — good, bad, or otherwise.
And thank you.
Kindle version:
http://www.amazon.com/Tellen-Song-education-Wilhelm-Tell-ebook/dp/B019T7A388
Paperback:https://www.createspace.com/5959471
Publishing the story of the WilliamTell — part legend, part history — was something of a Christmasgift to myself.
I happened across an article some yearsago that tried valiantly to outline how much was myth and how muchtrue story. An heroic attempt but one that didn’t succeed entirely,nor do I think the author thought he would. Too much is lost in themists of time. It has been over 700 years after all.
Yes, the Battle of Morgarten, one ofthe precipitating events to the founding of Switzerland, occurred inNovember, 1315 AD. That’s certainly a verifiable event. (Though,even here there is some controversy among historians.) And yet, thereis so much that is ill-known about how the country we now callSwitzerland came to be.
That shouldn’t be surprising. It wasa very long time ago, and in an area where written records were notthe norm. But there are other reasons, some of which are possibly ofinterest to an English-reading audience, most of whom pay littleattention to Switzerland (like most of the world).
One major factor in that uncertainty isthe sheer complexity of German politics of the period. The late13th-early 14th centuries were a time of anarray of mind-boggling competition among power-lusting individuals,families, and factions.
That extended from north, east, andwest of what is now Switzerland down to Lombardy (northern Italy) andbeyond. The rulers of the badly-named Holy Roman Empire had beenmessing about not only in central and south Europe for generationsbut all throughout Italy, too.
You’d think the Alpine mountainranges would’ve cut them off at the pass, but the St. Gotthard andothers helped open up Italy not only to trade but to the usual rapinefrom men who want want others have produced.
And that brings us back to Tellen Song,which covers a great deal of this history, grasping and factionalfighting, and a fair amount of more personal events — both real andinvented.
Give it a few minutes exploration,please. Read the blurb. Download and read the sample. Let me knowwhat you think — good, bad, or otherwise.
And thank you.
Kindle version:
http://www.amazon.com/Tellen-Song-education-Wilhelm-Tell-ebook/dp/B019T7A388
Paperback:https://www.createspace.com/5959471
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