Bøker av Adam Fox

Chidiebere, apprentice engineer and part-time plumber-sorcerer, and Kurra, her opinionated hearth-hob, embark on an adventure that crosses realms after Kurra overhears the mysterious Cardinal talking with their factory boss.With the assistance of a pair of Roma hedge-witches, the four friends attempt to unpick the dark events in the factory, before fleeing to sanctuary in a magical realm.Will Chi ever be the same again after witnessing the magical realm? Will Kurra break free from her domestic servitude? Can they stop the might of the Church from destroying the real home Kurra so desperately seeks?

This collection is concerned with the articulation, mediation and reception of authority; Early modern people were not passive receptacles of principles of authority as communicated in, for example, sermons, statutes and legal process.

Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.