To the following resources, I am particularly indebted: Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, edited by John M. Jeep; The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery, by Leonard P. Hindsley; Henry Suso: The Exemplar, with Two Sermons, translated, edited, and introduced by Frank Tobin; Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages, edited by W. R. Inge; The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander; The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri, translated by John Ciardi; Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers (fourth edition), by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D.; Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned, by Albert Howard Carter III, Ph.D., and Jane Arbuckle Petro, M.D.; Severe Burns: A Family Guide to Medical and Emotional Recovery, by Andrew M. Munster, M.D., and the Staff of the Baltimore Regional Burn Center; Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings, by Janetta Rebold Benton (in which is printed a version of the legend of the dragon La Gargouille); the website Viking Answer Lady; and the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
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Davidson, Andrew.
The gargoyle / Andrew Davidson.—1st ed.
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1. Burns and scalds—Patients—Fiction. 2. Traffic accident victims—Fiction. 3. Hospital wards—Fiction. 4. Reincarnation—Fiction. 5. Stone carvers—Fiction. 6. Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321—Translations into German—Fiction. 7. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
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