Series Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
Series author: Ellis Peters
67 Works
Popularity 1,297 (8,417 Members)
48,243 Books
906 Reviews
3.9
- A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters
- A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
- One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
- Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters
- Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
- The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters
- The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
- The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters
- The Devil's Novice by Ellis Peters
- Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters
- The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters
- An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters
- The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters
- The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters
- The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters
- The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters
- The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters
- The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters
- The Summer of the Danes by Ellis Peters
- The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
Core
Abridged Audio
| Morbid Taste for Bones {abridged audiobook} by Ellis Peters 1 copy | 1 |
| One Corpse Too Many [abridged] by Ellis Peters 1 copy | 2 |
| Monk's Hood [abridged] by Ellis Peters 1 copy | 3 |
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Companions
| Brother Cadfael's Book of Days by Ellis Peters 63 copies | companion |
| Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses by Robin Whiteman 290 copies, 3 reviews | companion |
| The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael by Robin Whiteman 203 copies, 1 review | companion |
| Cadfael Country: Shropshire and the Welsh Borders by Rob Talbot 82 copies, 1 review | companion |
| Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael by Anne K. Kaler 25 copies, 3 reviews | |
| Ellis Peters' Shropshire by Ellis Peters 59 copies, 3 reviews |
DescriptionsEdit Descriptions
- This is a series of British crime/mystery novels set in the 12th century, featuring the Benedictine monk-herbalist-detective Brother Cadfael of Shrewsbury Abbey in Shropshire. Cadfael himself is a Welshman; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd. The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil war between the forces of King Stephen and Empress Maud. Several true historical events are described or referred to in the books. The series is discussed in "Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael" by Edward J. Rielly. in: The Detective as Historian ed. by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. (Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University, 2000), pp. 60-75. (English, Unclassified)
Other Names
English: Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Cadfael [audiobooks] — Dutch: Broeder Cadfaël — French: Cadfael, Les enquêtes de Frère Cadfael — Italian: Le indagini di fratello Cadfael — Japanese: 修道士カドフェル・シリーズ — Spanish: Fray Cadfael — Swedish: Broder Cadfael
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