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 Part II. The Hansa Lands and France. 37. Advent. [December 1, 1347]

In some chapters, I had to do very little work. This was one of these. Both the elaborate tales of the grandparents and parents of Jesus and the monastic hair splitting about the vow of poverty were medieval commonplaces, and I have simply incorporated them here as matter-of-fact elements of medieval Christianity. Of course, many of these details may seem as foreign to a modern Christian as they do to Bávlos, but that's the point: Bávlos is traveling in 1347, and this is the world he sees.