{"id":582,"date":"2016-08-30T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/?p=582"},"modified":"2016-08-30T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:16:39","slug":"book-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/2016\/08\/30\/book-signings\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Signings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSCN0856\"<\/a>Just back from the fabulous Herstmonceux Castle medieval weekend where I was lucky enough to sign a few books and talk to old friends who have been with the series from the beginning.\u00a0 It gave me the opportunity to have a look at Hangman Blind, the first book about Hildegard and her gang of sleuthing friends.\u00a0 In the back I discovered a useful note which I’d forgotten,\u00a0 about how I came to write the series in the first place.\u00a0 It really came down to finding the chronicle from the Abbey of Meaux written in 1396, exactly the period when the series is set.\u00a0 It was by one of the abbots (not Hubert de Courcy, alas, only a figment of my imagination) but Abbot Thomas Burton who was abbot throughout King Richard II’s reign.\u00a0 I’ll say a bit more about him another time.\u00a0 For now I want to try to show you some of the pix from Herstmonceux of the many amazing medieval craftsfolk I met there and show you something of the wonderful\u00a0 work they do.\u00a0 Here’s the apothecary’s work bench with an alembic for distilling herbs.\u00a0 From book 1 Hangman Blind to the new book 8 The Alchemist at Netley Abbey – this will definitely be a feature. Alchemists, from which we get our word chemist, and apothecaries, licensed to sell cures, were the scientists of their day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just back from the fabulous Herstmonceux Castle medieval weekend where I was lucky enough to sign a few books and talk to old friends who have been with the series from the beginning.\u00a0 It gave me the opportunity to have a look at Hangman Blind, the first book about Hildegard and her gang of sleuthing friends.\u00a0 In the back I discovered a useful note which I’d forgotten,\u00a0 about how I came to write the series in the first place.\u00a0 It really came down to finding the chronicle from the Abbey of Meaux written in 1396, exactly the period when the<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}