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by Karen Cushman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books (9 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330368192
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330368193
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,060,705 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It is the mid-14th century. The orphaned Matilda, brought up to be meek, saintly and bookish is abandoned in Blood and Bone Alley and must face a new and scary life as apprentice to Peg the Bonesetter. Can the saints help her now? Or can goodness take new and unexpected forms?

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on medieval medicine, 22 Aug 2003
By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Matilda Bone (Hardcover)
When (in Medieval England) 14-year-old Matilda is apprenticed to Red Peg, the bonesetter, she feels like a duck among chickens. Raised to read French and Latin, to pray often and mortify the flesh, she suddenly finds herself in a world where literacy is vanishingly rare and not appreciated, where prayer is ignored and the flesh taken seriously. She begins to learn that prayer and religion is not the answer, but down-to-earth action is.

This book is a marvelous window into medieval medicine (if that is not too grand of a word to use for it) and life in general. In it we meet a pompous stargazing doctor, an ill trained but capable woman physician, a leech, a near-sighted apothecary, and a host of others. The author added an interesting appendix on her research into medieval medicine, complete with a short bibliography, should you wish to read more on the subject.

I must confess myself to being somewhat uncomfortable with the author's treatment of medieval Christianity, but I do not believe that her characters acted at all out of character for medieval people. So, I do recommend this short, but fascinating book.

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