The Lost Crown
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Chapter 1
The Night Before the Arrest
The knight's name was Gaufred de Montbrun, and he had known for eleven days that he was going to be arrested.
Chapter 2
The Psalter of Mas-Dieu
The man who found it was not looking for it.
Chapter 3
The Archive, Late
The Vatican Apostolic Archive closes at five o'clock in the afternoon.
Chapter 4
The Archivist of Barcelona
Pere Camprubí received the package on a Tuesday in June of 1891 and set it aside until Thursday.
Chapter 5
What Ockham Began
This chapter has no documents.
Chapter 6
The Vendée, 1793
What follows is drawn from two sources: a parish register from Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, and a deposition taken in 1796 from one Marie-Anne F...
Chapter 7
Prague, 1942
What follows is drawn from a set of handwritten notes found inside a chalice case in the possession of Teodor Maren at his death, and from a...
Chapter 8
The Letter from Rome, 2023
What follows is a recovered email correspondence between Teodor Maren and Dr. Mara Leclerc of the Vatican Apostolic Archive, conducted betwe...
Chapter 9
The Dissolution, 1540
What follows is reconstructed from three sources: a letter from Prior Edmund Holt of Rievaulx to an unknown recipient, dated October 1539; a...
Chapter 10
The Reasonable Age
What follows is drawn from the working journal of Father Sébastien Renard, SJ, kept between 1748 and 1771, recovered from the library of the...