Showing The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple

Paperback. Pub Date: 1995 09 Pages: 310 Publisher: Harper Collins The year is 1299 Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctanly of awaits the return of her betrothed - a man she hardly knows - from the Crusade. Thomas Oken and disillusioned from years of fighting. finds the very idea of ??marriage and lordship overwhelming. So When the village priest sends them on religious pilgrimage before the marriage. both are relieved. The journey means a postponement of the dreaded nuptials. and a last chance for adventure. As Eleanor and thomas wend their way toward the shrine of St. James. they meet mant other pilgrims - each with their own extraordinary tales to tell and ideas to share. There is Etienne. a passionate student of philosophy; other Amose. gentle teacher .. .