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    Ars Magica

    By Judith Tarr

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    This is a true story.

    Once there was a boy whose soul soared so high that no simple farmstead could contain him. A wise teacher took him from his father’s farm and taught him all that the teacher knew; then sent him on to greater teachers, until the boy arrived at the pinnacle of the world. Emperors bowed before him; princes of the Church yielded to his will. But the boy had a secret...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBook View Cafe
    Release dateFeb 14, 2010
    ISBN9781611380750
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    Judith Tarr

    Judith Tarr is the author of more than twenty widely praised novels, including The Throne of Isis, White Mare's Daughter, and Queen of Swords, as well as five previous volumes in the Avaryan Chronicles: The Hall of the Mountain King, The Lady of Han-Gilen and A Fall of Princes (collected in one volume as Avaryan Rising), Arrows of the Sun, and Spear of Heaven. A graduate of Yale and Cambridge University, Judith Tarr holds degrees in ancient and medieval history, and breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm, her home in Vail, Arizona.

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    • 4/5
      A real, historical person, Gerbert de Aurillac started life as a farmer's son in an unimportant town in tenth-century France. He died Pope Sylvester II in 1003.

      Along the way, he became an important scholar, teacher, mathematician, and by tenth-century standards, scientist.

      According to legend, he may also have been a master of the magical arts. This is that story, starting with young Gerbert meeting his first tutor in the arts of magic.

      This is a good, solid, engrossing story of mediaevel magic, politics, and history, with really excellent characters. Tarr as always knows the history more than well enough to do believable but interesting things with it, and make a stronger story overall.

      Gerbert, his friend Richer, his rival Arnulf, his first teacher of magic, the Saracen Ibrahim, Emperor Otto II, and the other significant characters all have the complexities, mixed motives, strengths and weaknesses. For this reread, I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator is very good.

      Recommended.

      I bought this audiobook.
    • 4/5
      fantasy set in pre-renaissance Europe and Byzantium. out hero Gerbert is a monk and teacher who encounters a heathen with much to teach him. offering a sympathetic glimpse of Islam and a well-meaning but misguided Christian clergyman, this is an enjoyable and entertaining novel with more than the usual dose of historical context.
    • 4/5
      An interesting history of Gerbert of Aurillac later Pope Sylvester in the years before 1000 ad. About him and magic and politics and it reads like history as most Judith Tarr novels do.