Jeffrey Rowe
About me
Jeff Rowe makes his living writing about health IT and other healthcare related topics. After hours, however, he is writing a series of novels that take place in medieval Spain, a time when the culture, politics, and history of the Iberian peninsula were largely defined by the interplay between the Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities.
His first novel, Song of Toledo, is available on Kindle at Amazon.com
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Song of Toledo, a novel of 11th century Spain. Now available on Amazon.com, and soon at other distributors and retail outlets. Can a man go home again after fighting his own king? The year is 1086, and for Brother Bernardo, who is accompanying the new archbishop of Toledo from the…
Freedom and Religion: Is it Either/Or?
Pick up a newspaper on any given day and you’re bound to find an article describing a clash between some form of secular political power and a religious institution. In the West, these episodes play out, at least for the most part, in courts or legislative bodies. But that has…
As I’ve noted in earlier entries, in the late 11th century a number of popes were intent upon unifying liturgical practice across Christian Europe. In Spain that effort was opposed by Christians who had been living under Moorish rule for centuries and had developed their own Arab language rite. Loyal…