![]() ![]() ![]() Show More Perhaps because Thomas's life was, from a novelist's point of view, rather uneventful, de Wohl creates a story around the life of a fictional English knight who becomes involved with the d'Aquino family and, at key points, with Thomas himself. ![]() Albert the Great, the humble Thomas - through an intense life of study, writing, prayer, preaching and contemplation - ironically rose to become the influential figure of his age, and he later was proclaimed by the Church as the Angelic Doctor."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. De Wohl succeeds notably in portraying the exceptional quality of this man, a fusion of mighty intellect and childlike simplicity. Thomas who - by taking a vow of poverty and joining the Dominicans - defied his illustrious, prominent family's ambition for him to have great power in the Church." "The battles and Crusades of the 13th century and the ruthlessness of the excommunicated Emperor Frederick II play a big part in the story, but it is Thomas of Aquino who dominates this book. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. "The famous novelist Louis de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. ![]()
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