Monk’s Magic (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexander de Comeau
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—high fantasy
- Time of Work: About 1490
- Setting: England and Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Immortality, England or English people, Faustian bargains, Youth, Fifteenth century, Germany or German people, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Quest, Underworld or Hades, Talisman or magical object, Alchemy
- Locales: England, Germany
The Plot
Brother Dismas, a lay brother in an unidentified order during the early Tudor period in England, has never taken priestly vows. His abbot has given him a dispensation to pursue the magical arts and alchemy in the hope that he can find an elixir to restore the abbot’s youth and good health. Dismas plans, with his abbot’s blessing, to locate magi who claimed in their writings to have found the elixir and to ask their help in reproducing it.
One of the magi, Lucius Germanicus, was last known to be living in Germany, and Brother Dismas travels there via London....
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