He was once warrior and scholar, saint and savage. Named by the Moors Aizun ibn al Qutiyya, is seemingly touched by the hand of God. Eunuchs, slave girls, homosexual princes abound. When he sets out to revenge his brother upon some Berbers, Alaric winds up as a page in the Alcazar, which is ruled by Islamites. But beneath this milky exterior beats the heart of a lion. Young Alaric Teudisson, has a fair, effeminate appearance and even an odor of netity. Only such an age could have spawned Spaniard Alaric Teudisson - the mighty Visigoth nobleman whose extraordinary capacity for love was matched only by the violence of his destiny. Informations bibliographiques Auteur, Frank Yerby diteur, Dial Press, 1965 Original provenant de, lUniversit du Michigan Numris, 12 sept. a time when merchants, princes, thieves and whores, Christians, Islamic Arabs, Berbers, Yemenites, Greeks and Jews were trapped in an inferno of embattled peoples and faiths. An age of perfumed harems where acts of love were spiced with the erotic mysteries of the Orient. 9th century Iberian Peninsula - an age of brutal battles to the death and dungeons equipped with thumbscrews and spiked boots.
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