In the Blue Pike: A Tale of the Eve of the Reformation
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The Blue Pike, a crowded inn at the turn of the sixteenth century, on an evening when Nuremberg patricians with an escort of mercenaries, Dominican monks and a band of strolling players all arrive at once — among the players Kuni, a pale young girl with a crippled leg, whose story it becomes, from that evening through the months that follow. Ebers found the medical papyrus that bears his name and dug in Egypt for years; here he leaves Egypt for Germany on the eve of the Reformation, and the inn is a cross-section of a world about to break. Forty-nine plates, from Dürer and Cranach to Munch, gather the era's roads, inns and ill-matched couples, the visual world of the Reformation that Ebers sets his tale within.
The Blue Pike, a crowded inn at the turn of the sixteenth century, on an evening when Nuremberg patricians with an escort of mercenaries, Dominican monks and a band of strolling players all arrive at once — among the players Kuni, a pale young girl with a crippled leg, whose story it becomes, fro...
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Georg Ebers (1837–1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. In 1870 he was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Leipzig, and he is known for his discovery of the Ebers Papyrus as well as a series of historical novels set in ancient Egypt, including An Egyptian Princess, Uarda, and Cleopatra.
Georg Ebers (1837–1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. In 1870 he was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Leipzig, and he is known for his discovery of the Ebers Papyrus as well as a series of historical novels set in ancient Egypt, including An Egyptian Princess, Uard...
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