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...
Chapter 11
The Keeping of the Hours
What follows is drawn from the administrative records of the Abbey of Inden, near Aachen, covering the years 816 to 823, and from a brief me...
Chapter 12
The Recovery
What follows is drawn from a set of acquisition records and internal correspondence recovered from the archive of the Société des Amis de la...