This book will prove fascinating to all of those who know or have ever visited Reculver Towers, these being now all that remain of the huge minster and monastery named Regulbium by the Roman Invaders. Local myths and legends, that over the centuries have come to be associated with these iconic remains, are all within these pages: the screaming baby heard in the ruins, the cowled monk perambulating through the minster on the nights of the full moon and being seen along the lonely dykes, and sea creeks among the Romney Marsh sheep as of old. Saxton chronicles the life and times of Abbot Brithwald (Breitwald), who strides like a giant through each page, and his struggles in keeping alight the faith of Christ in this place. From being plagued by Mad Barbara, the cackling witch of Romney Marsh, to his stand against the resurgence of Wicca, by a congregation in mortal terror of contracting the rampaging Black Death, Saxton has written a page-turner guaranteed to leave you wanting more. Breitwald, to spell his German name correctly, achieved much at Regulbium. He founded a Masonic Lodge and instituted craft apprenticeships, not to mention a printing Bauhaus thereby laying the firm foundations for what became eventually the University of Kent.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. NrF. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, without dedication by the author on title-page. Signing reads, 'Something beautiful/for God/Malcom Saxton'. iv,90pp. Regulbium was the Roman name of an ancient fort at Reculver, Kent. By the fifth century the Romans had abandoned the fort and in 669 an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded on the site. The author has written a fictionalised chronicle of one of its abbots, Abbot Brithwald. Local myths and legends, that over the centuries have become associated with the site, are all within these pages: the screaming baby heard in the ruins and the cowled monk walking through on the nights of the full moon. A near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 15490
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