Scholarium

13 hrs. 57 min.

Language Russian

Author Claudia Gros

Narrator Oleg Isaev

Description

Cologne, 1413. In this city, everyone was hiding something. The apprentice hid from the master, the master hid from his wife—who in turn had her own secrets. The city nurtured its mysteries, and rumors accumulated over hundreds of rooftops swelled like fat clouds. Behind each facade, the trace of the devil was hidden; behind each wall, unholy love; in every confessional, a heap of tormented souls who were freed from their secret sins by shifting them onto the heart of a priest listening to bitter words.

The city was shaken by a terrible murder of the provost of the University of Cologne, committed under strange circumstances. Can the riddle of this villain shrouded in a halo of mystical secrecy be solved with philosophical dogmas—and where will this investigation lead? Didn’t someone intend to settle an ongoing philosophical dispute in this way—by dragging it into real life? Or perhaps the reason is simpler, and everything is in the young wife of the provost?

Claudia Gross managed to skillfully weave historical color of medieval Germany with vivid images and a gripping intrigue. In terms of subtlety, philosophical depth, and compelling suspense, this intellectual detective story can stand alongside such bestsellers as “The Name of the Rose.”