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Praise for

Sacred bones

“A very warm, lively historical novel—the best ever written on the subject of relic thieves. I look forward to recommending it to all my colleagues and friends.”

—PATRICK GEARY, professor of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton; former president of the Medieval Academy of America, and Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California

“I love the crack and pop of Spring’s well-turned sentences, which make an unimaginable world vivid and compelling. There are just so many felicities of phrase and observation. The book is very funny, too. I was completely won over.”

—JOHN LAHR, former drama critic of The New Yorker; author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, a 2014 National Book Award finalist

To Janis, my irrepressible, irreplaceable partner and friend

and to

Evan, Declan, Josh, and Sister Sue

Copyright © 2015 Michael Spring

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews, and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Page 29: Random House. The right to reprint 12 lines from page 184 of The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

Pages 175-177: Harvard University Press. The right to reprint pages 5-7 from The History of the Translation of the Blessed Martyrs of Christ, Marcellinus and Peter. Published in 1926. Author Barrett Wendell. Copyright is in the public domain.

Pages 178-179: From Princeton University Press. The right to reprint 270 words from Patrick Geary’s Furta Sacra.

Four Winds Press

San Francisco, CA

FourWindsPress.com

ISBN: 978-1-940423-10-4

Cover and interior design by Domini Dragoone

Cover art—Mural: detail of wall painting from Cubiculum 15 of the Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase, c. 10 BC. Praying Skeleton: “Side View of a Praying Skeleton” by William Cheselden, from Osteographia, 1733. Arm: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (anatomist), Jan Wanderlaar (artist), and Andrew Bell (engraver); from Tabulae sceleti e musculorum corporis humani, 1777.

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