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The real history behind the Da Vinci code

The real history behind the Da Vinci code

Sharan Newman · 2005 · 337 pages

History and criticismLegendsChristianity in literatureChristian saints in literatureTemplarsGrail

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You've read The Da Vinci Code - but what's fact and what's legend? Acclaimed medieval historian Sharan Newman provides all the answers as she fills in essential background on the subjects and places mentioned in the book. Newman writes from an objective viewpoint, after visiting all The Da Vinci Code sites in France and England. She offers unprecedented insight into these locations in her concise and lively entries, shedding new light on some of the deepest mysteries of the Dark Ages. Let her lead you through a real history that is 'not just kings, battles and dates, but people - contradictory, unpredictable, messy people'.

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