The Book of the Lion Quotes

My master Otto had said this was why the Crusade was required, not merely to free Jerusalem from the Saladin's armies, but to send fighting men far from the marketplace. (7.14)

I stretched my arms and legs with great difficulty, the chains even heavier than before. For all the qualities of my master Otto—his welcoming smile, his gentle laugh, and his store of Frankish p...

I did not take a step. Even if it cost me my head, I would defend my master and his good wife. (1.13)

Two men stretched my master's hand out along the cold iron of the anvil, his fingers splayed out white against the black. I kicked and wrestled, and though I was a mere seventeen to the full streng...

Winter Star grew calm under the stroke of Hubert's comb. I tried to make my question sound casual. "I thought Christians were forbidden to speak to a man like Rannulf." (7.10)

But then the startling music of splintering oak flung me out of bed. I offered a silent prayer to Saint Mark, the patron saint of those who would be brave. (1.4)

The Holy Father in Rome had decreed that all who fought to take Jerusalem from the heathen would obtain indulgences—forgiveness of sins. The foulest criminal could absolve himself of wrongdoing b...

Maud, my master's wife, was saying this was exactly why we needed a dog. "And a big dog, too," she added, none of us really frightened yet. It was a time of outlaws and traveling beggars, and we we...