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The Relic Master: A Novel door Christopher…
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The Relic Master: A Novel (editie 2015)

door Christopher Buckley (Auteur)

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1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients, and is as honest as any relic dealer can be. When Dismas and his artist friend Dürer conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble, Dürer's reckless pride exposes Cardinal Albrecht's newly acquired shroud as a fake, the Cardinal puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth-- the Shroud of Chambéry-- Europe's most celebrated relic.… (meer)
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Titel:The Relic Master: A Novel
Auteurs:Christopher Buckley (Auteur)
Info:Simon & Schuster (2015), 400 pages
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Trefwoorden:historical-fiction, fiction

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The Relic Master door Christopher Buckley

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    KellyHewitt: I really loved this book by Christopher Buckley. His historical knowledge and ability to write an enjoyable yet historically strong novel blew me away. I immediately went out and bought two more of his books.
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At page 80 and I'm just not interested in what's happening. There's no depth and hardly any description of people or settings; it feels like a sketch instead of an oil painting.
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
It took a full quarter of the book before I realized this was written by Christopher Buckley, not Christopher Moore. Moore is known for his genre/historical parodies - including one of my favorite books of all, Fool - while Buckley is better known for his political/modern satire. I count both Christophers among my favorite authors, but in this case the discovery that it was less than Moore caused me some grief.

Buckley can be funny - I'm just not sure why he chose not to be here. It felt like a first draft of a classic Moore, before the dialogue gets punched-up and the plots intricately woven together.

Perhaps it's unfair to compare, but I would in all earnestness urge you to read "Fool" if you're considering this. Then, if you're still looking for more, you can always swing back around to pick this up. ( )
  kaitwallas | May 21, 2021 |
Tried to finish it, couldn't, stopped at the start of chapter 25. I gave it a lot of pages, but it never fully gripped me. The author is one of my favorites, but his decision to set his book in the past, which is not his fictional forte, might have been the deciding factor in dropping this one.
  sarahlh | Mar 6, 2021 |
An interesting look at the finding and selling of ancient artifacts (much to the disgust of Martin Luther). The key artifact in this story is the Shroud of Turin. Obviously well-researched Buckley writes an intriguing and humorous albeit violent tale. I was very disappointed, however, at the ultra-foul language used which was completely unnecessary and out of place for this story. ( )
  repb | Jan 11, 2021 |
Fun historical novel dealing peripherally with the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Sure the language used at times is anachronistic, but it is all part of the fun ultimately. Worth the read. ( )
  Skybalon | Mar 19, 2020 |
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“The Relic Master” is an inspired piece of literary gymnastics. We are in Northern Europe in 1517 and an outraged, constipated monk named Martin Luther is calling time on the corruption — sexual, financial and spiritual — of the Roman Catholic Church. The problem is exquisitely summed up in Buckley’s opening chapter, set at a relic fair in Basel. On sale is a dazzling array of sanctity: hundreds of bits of saints’ and martyrs’ skulls, teeth, bones and hair; iron bars from torture grilles; whips and thorns, as well as nails, wood and blood from the crucifixion; even a vial with drops of the Virgin’s breast milk. Capitalism may be in its infancy, but relics are a healthy source of revenue for the church and private collectors, and in line with market forces, supply rises to meet demand. (Five hundred years on, one can, of course, still find similar relics in churches all over Italy.)
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Vatican City, August 28 - Workers doing repairs on the tomb of Pope Leo X in Rome's Basilica Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva have found a cloth closely resembling the Shroud of Turin, the relic held by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
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1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients, and is as honest as any relic dealer can be. When Dismas and his artist friend Dürer conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble, Dürer's reckless pride exposes Cardinal Albrecht's newly acquired shroud as a fake, the Cardinal puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth-- the Shroud of Chambéry-- Europe's most celebrated relic.

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