“A Morbid Taste For Bones”.
Brother Cadfael Murder Mysteries.
Available on YouTube
Brother Cadfael and a deputation of Monks from
Shrewsbury Abbey are dispatched to Wales to recover the remains of Martyred Saint Winifred over the objections
of the local Lord and residents.
Stars: Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Julian Firth.
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Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character
in a series of historical murder mysteries written
between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar
Edith Pargeter under the name Ellis Peters.[1]
The character of Cadfael is a Welsh Benedictine Monk
living at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in Shrewsbury, England, in the first half of the 12th-Century.
Brother Cadfael “combines the curious mind of a scientist/pharmacist with a Knight-Errant”.[3] He entered Monastic life in his forties, after being both a Soldier, Crusader, and a Sailor.
This Worldly experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in Monastic life. He is a skilled observer of human nature, inquisitive by nature, energetic, a talented herbalist (work he learned in the Holy Land), and has an innate, although modern, sense of justice and fair-play.
Abbots call upon him as a medical examiner, detective,
doctor, and diplomat. His Worldly knowledge, although useful, gets him in trouble with the more doctrinaire characters of the series, and the seeming contradiction between the secular and the spiritual worlds forms a
central and continuing theme of the stories.
The stories are set between 1135 and 1145, during “The Anarchy”, the destructive contest for the Crown of England between King Stephen and his cousin, Empress Maud.
