The Silver Tree. The seventh virtue

The heirs of the midwife - and perhaps the most extraordinary prince of the German High Middle Ages:With her historical novelThe Silver Tree, bestselling author Sabine Ebert launches her new series about an exciting chapter in German history.He was perhaps the most brilliant prince of his time, a patron of the cities, a minned poet and organiser of brilliant tournaments: Henry the Illustrious, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia. At the beginning of the story, however, it is uncertain whether he will ever reign. His father dies when Henry is three years old. His uncle Louis of Thuringia, who has just married the Hungarian king's daughter Elisabeth, becomes his guardian. Will he keep the inheritance for his nephew or will he seize it? In her distress, the margravine's widow Jutta summons Lukas from Freiberg. She had once sent him away from court because his stepdaughter Clara was her husband's great love. Lukas gathers loyal followers around him and summons Martha's eldest son Thomas from the Holy Land to Meissen. Meanwhile, Marthe's granddaughter Änne ends up in Thuringia, where she has disturbing encounters with Elisabeth, who was later canonised, and her merciless confessor, the fanatical crusading preacher and heretic persecutor Konrad von Marburg.The healer Marthe is the title character of Sabine Ebert's historical bestsellers in the five-volume midwife saga, and in this series of historical novels Sabine Ebert lets us experience a fascinating century from the perspective of Marthe's children and grandchildren: the great age of the Minne and Emperor Frederick II's conflicts with the Pope.