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Jan 26, 2008 07:29AM

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There's a lot of period detail, and you really get a sense of what it was like to live in those days, when being on the "right" side of political or religious issues was literally a matter of life or death. You also develop an understanding of what it must have been like to have a physical disability in the Tudor era, when most people believed that one's physical appearance was a reflection of their soul, and therefore a hunchback was a visible sign of God's displeasure.
It's a bit like The Name of the Rose, where the author takes the murder mystery framework, and weaves in a variety of historical, social and political details. Great stuff!
