The Sword and the Miracle: A Novel
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ISBN: 0375500030 / Publisher: Random House, October 1997
Bega, a lovely Irish princess gifted with miraculous powers, and Padric, a magnetic British warrior-prince, find themselves torn between spiritual fulfillment and physical desire, ideals and political expediency, in a novel set against the backdrop of seventh-century Christianity
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Melvyn Bragg's acclaimed epic novel is set at the tumultuous dawn of Christianity in Britain and Ireland.Two people destined to be lovers sacrifice themselves for what they believe to be a greater destiny. For the warrior Padric, a charismatic British prince, it is the salvation of his people and homeland from warring Northumbrian overlords; for Bega, a bewitching Irish princess, it is carrying out her self-imposed commitment to spread the word of God. She, bearing a fragment of the true cross, is gifted with miraculous powers; he is a swordsman without peer. Their disparate missions send them apart as they travel throughout the frigid wilderness of a primitive England beset by terror and villainy. Faith is pitched against doubt, spiritual fulfillment against physical desire, romantic ideals against political expediency and pragmatism against theory.
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