The Codex of Saint Thomas
The plague ship arrived in Marseille in the autumn of 1347. Brother Thomas of York did not know this, for he was three hundred miles away in the Benedictine monastery of Saint Mary of York, copying Aristotle's On the Heavens by candlelight in the scriptorium when the winter wind howled through the stone corridors and the snow piled against the narrow windows. But he felt it. Something in the...
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