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The Tailor-King. Anthony Arthur's The Tailor-King is a masterful account
of what happened both inside and outside the ancient walls ...
... bothers. After the Tailor is done he is pardoned with his life. Shahrazad
has the same hopes she will be pardoned by King Shahrayar. ...
... Zamon decides to tell his brother and after discovering the truth King Shahryar
decided ... In "The Hunchback’s Tale" a lie that began with the tailor spun out ...
... The equivocator is treasonous, and the tailor has stolen clothing, just
as Macbeth has taken the robes of the king (Harcourt 394). ...
... of religiousness even stronger because if the king is Christian then the king must
appeal ... She was purchased by a tailor named John Wheatley for his wife, where ...
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Anthony Arthur's The Tailor-King is a masterful account of what happened both inside and outside the ancient walls of sixteenth-century Munster when Protestant religious fervor transformed otherwise intelligent and rational men into irrational creatures capable of unbelievable brutality. While the threat posed to modern society by religious fundamentalism has been underscored by the events of September 11, The Tailor-King reminds us that suicidal craziness is not just limited to extreme followers of Islam. The graphic descriptions and concrete imagery bring the sixteenth-century fully alive and when combined with the author's meticulous research and gift for storytelling they create a rare pairing of erudition and page-turning readability.
Munster is a solid, bourgeois kind of place and in the 16th Century it seemed equally so. An important trading centre, it showed its considerable wealth in its merchants' mansions and warehouses, its churches and impressive cathedral. The beginning of the Reformation saw the city split into Catholic and Lutheran interests, but it continued to function until a group of Anabaptists, regarded as heretics for their insistence on adult baptism, gradually seized control of the town. Eventually they drove out the majority of other believers and the ranks of Munster swelled with Anabaptists from other areas, particularly Holland. A charismatic leader, a former baker named Jan Matthias, was one of these. Jan van Leyden, another Dutch Anabaptist, had called him to Munster and a group led by a wealthy local merchant. Together they declared war on the local Prince-Bishop and were rewarded with a siege of their fortified town. Deemed heretics by pretty well everyone, Catholic and Lutheran, the Anabaptists were determined to hold out, seize the countryside and establish a New Kingdom of Zion.
Anthony Arthur describes the Company of Christ as starting off as a well-disciplined, effective organization and he gives us some...
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