Cadfael
Created by	Ellis Peters
Starring	Derek Jacobi
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	75 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	1994 – 1998
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Cadfael (pronounced /ˈkad.vail/, approximately "CAD-vile") is the fictional detective in a series of murder mysteries by the late Edith Pargeter writing under the name "Ellis Peters." Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913–October 14, 1995) was a prolific British author of works in many categories, especially history andhistorical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. ... Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (IPA: ) (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... This be the Danster with a few new trickoms ahahahahahahahahahahahahah Hace fun life life // January 1 - NAFTA goes into effect. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913–October 14, 1995) was a prolific British author of works in many categories, especially history andhistorical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. ...

Life and times of Cadfael

A Welsh monk in an English monastery

Cadfael is a Benedictine monk and herbalist at Shrewsbury Abbey in Shrewsbury, the county town of the English county of Shropshire. Cadfael himself is a Welshman; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd and he was born around 1080 to a villein (serf) family in Trefriw, in Gwynedd (northern Wales). For the college, see Benedictine College. ... St. ... See also Herbalism A Herbalist is: 1. ... Shrewsbury Abbey, now famous for its prominent role in the Brother Cadfael mysteries of Ellis Peters, is a medieval monastic foundation. ... , Shrewsbury (pronounced either or [1]) is the county town of Shropshire, West Midlands, England. ... A county town is the capital of a county in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Shropshire (pronounced /, -/), alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated Shrops, is a county in the West Midlands of England. ... The Welsh are, according to Hastings (1997), an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language, which is a Celtic language. ... Events William I of England, in a letter, reminds the Bishop of Rome that the King of England owes him no allegiance. ... A villein is, in the feudal system, a member of the class of serfs tied to the land, distinguished from those in actual slavery, but restricted by law from exercising the rights of a free man. ... Costumes of Slaves or Serfs, from the Sixth to the Twelfth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe. ... Trefriw is a village on the River Conwy in north Wales, lying a few miles south of the site of the Roman camp of Canovium, sited at Caerhun. ... Gwynedd is an administrative county in Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. ...

Historical background

The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil war between the forces of King Stephen and Empress Maud. Several true historical events are described or referred to in the books. For example, the translation of Saint Winefride to Shrewsbury Abbey is fictionalised in the first chronicle, A Morbid Taste for Bones, and the siege of Shrewsbury by Stephen in 1138 forms the setting for One Corpse Too Many. Events January - Byland Abbey founded Stephen of Blois succeeds King Henry I. Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and widow of Henry V opposed Stephen and claims the throne as her own Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeats the Normans at Crug Mawr. ... Events Pope Lucius II is succeeded by Pope Eugene III Nur ad-Din ascends to power in Syria Construction begins on Notre-Dame dChartres in Chartres, France Korean historian Kim Pusik compiled the historical text Samguk Sagi. ... The Anarchy in English history commonly names the period of civil war and unsettled government that occurred during the reign (1135–1154) of King Stephen of England. ... Stephen (1096 - October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin (or, as the gossip of the time had it, his natural son) Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ... Empress Matilda (February 1102 – September 10, 1167; sometimes Maud or Maude), also called Matilda, Countess of Anjou or Matilda, Lady of the English, was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England. ... Saint Winefride (also: Saint Winifred, Gwenfrewi, Saint Gwenfrewy, Guinevere, Winfred of Wales) was a 7th century Welsh woman who had her head severed from her body by an enraged suitor, Caradog. ...

Familiarity with the secular world

Cadfael became a monk in middle age, after going on the First Crusade as both a soldier and later, a sailor. As a result, he is more familiar with the secular world than most of his brother monks. In addition, his personality more reflects modern attitudes and progressive ethics than his own time which often puts him in conflict with his brethren on matters of justice and conscience. Among other things, Brother Cadfael disobeys his superiors (in Monk's Hood), excuses a young couple for impulsively making love in a chapel (in The Sanctuary Sparrow) and condones euthanasia for a dying man in extreme agony (in the TV version of The Rose Rent). Combatants Christendom, Catholicism West European Christians, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Seljuks, Arabs and other Muslims The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of destroying the peaceful Islamic civilizations and confirming the barbaric nature of European society. ...

Arguably, however, this very background makes him a more worthy foil and friend for Sheriff Hugh Beringar than would have been a cloistered brother. Beringar, introduced in One Corpse Too Many (1979), the Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, is Cadfael's main ally in the pursuit of justice . A local man who was originally a partisan of Queen Matilda, Beringar ultimately swore loyalty to King Stephen of England. The character is first seen as an agent of King Stephen, then as the Under Sheriff, and finally as the Sheriff of Shropshire. At times, Beringar must choose between loyalty to the crown's justice and Cadfael's private view of the injustices of the world. Over time Beringar — and Heribert and Radulfus, Cadfael's abbots — come to recognise his slightly unusual skills, and use him as detective, medical examiner, diplomatic envoy (to the Welsh princes), and counsel. Empress Maud (February 7, 1102 – September 10, 1169) is the title by which Matilda, daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England and his wife Maud of Scotland (herself daughter of Malcolm III Canmore and St. ... Stephen (c. ...

Cadfael and Love

Cadfael's life has given him much more familiarity with the female sex than many of his brother monks, as well as more respect for them than many of his male contemporaries, inside or outside the abbey. Cadfael was engaged to a Welsh girl, Richildis, before he left for the Crusade. While he was away, she married someone else, but briefly re-appears in his life in Monk's Hood.

In his travels, he had affairs with at least three women: an Italian named Bianca, a Greek boat girl named Ariana, and a young Syrian widow, Mariam.

As a monk, he enjoys a purely platonic relationship with the equally worldly Benedictine nun, Sister Magdalen (formerly Avice of Thornbury), of a nearby convent. And finally, he has a special relationship with Saint Winefride, following his unique part in the expedition to fetch her bones chronicled in A Morbid Taste For Bones. He frequently talks to her in Welsh, their shared native language, invariably thinks of her as "The Girl" and (though he would reject the suggestion as sacrilegious) seems to be more than a bit in love with her. As Cadfael is never shown to be in conflict with his Christian vows, it's more likely that he's living in fidelity to his vows and loving the church. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...

A distinctive feature of the series is that in nearly every book there is a pair of star-crossed lovers, who invariably get the full sympathy of Brother Cadfael (and of the reader). Typically, Cadfael bends his full energy and ingenuity to the double task of solving the mystery and bringing the lovers to a happy union. In this latter, he seems the literary descendant of Shakespeare's Friar Lawrence who made great (though ultimately futile) efforts to help Romeo and Juliet. Cadfael is far more successful, with virtually all pairs of lovers in the series getting off to happy consummations, except when one of them turns out to be the wanted murderer. In one case, indeed, the lovers get their happy ending with Cadfael's help, even though one of them is the murderer. Shakespeare redirects here. ... Romeo and Juliet with Friar Laurence by Henry William Bunbury Friar Laurence (or Friar Lawrence) is a character in Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet who also features heavily in the year 10 Brigo English oral. ... Romeo and Juliet in the famous balcony scene by Ford Madox Brown For other uses, see Romeo and Juliet (disambiguation). ...

Lovers in the Cadfael books face a whole series of obstacles, which sometimes seem insurmountable (in one book, it seems that they are relatives too close to marry) but are invariably overcome. However, in few of the cases is the problem a significant difference in social status between the two. In this series, aristocratic boys usually fall in love with aristocratic girls, prosperous artisans fall for the daughters of artisans, and a lowly wandering juggler is charmed beyond measure by a lowly kitchen maid. However, in St. Peter's Fair, a trader's daughter settles for another trader's son when her aristocratic first choice turns out to be a cad, calling her a "shopkeeper's girl of no account." Thus, it may in fact be, as in any age, that good judgment yields before prejudice and Peters' characters deliberately curtail their romantic aspirations where class conflict would undermine them.

Olivier, Cadfael's son

One interesting twist which Pargeter develops over the course of the novels is that Cadfael proves to have conceived a son by his alliance with Mariam, who lived in Antioch. Cadfael meets his son only on a few, nevertheless cherished, occasions, quickly realising the truth behind the young man's origins. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Antakya. ...

Cadfael's son, Olivier de Bretagne, never knew his father, but his mother always described him in glowing terms, and it was based on this praise that he decided to embrace his father's heritage and Christianity rather than his mother's Islamic faith. After Mariam died, he offered his service to a crusading noble, and quickly became his favorite squire. (Virgin in the Ice) In the civil war, his master supported the Empress Maud. Sadly, this placed him on the opposite side of Cadfael's friend Hugh Beringar, though there was never open conflict, and the two men have met and expressed the highest respect for each other - as prescribed by the Code of Chivalry which emphasized resepct for an honourable foe. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Christianity is... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ... Empress Matilda (February 1102 – September 10, 1167; sometimes Maud or Maude), also called Matilda, Countess of Anjou or Matilda, Lady of the English, was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England. ... Bors Dilemma - he chooses to save a maiden rather than his brother Lionel Chivalry[1] is a term related to the medieval institution of knighthood. ...

Olivier is presented as the ideal knight and paladin - skilled and brave in battle, endlessly resourceful and resilient no matter what his predicament, generous and chivalrous, even to a fault - in one novel, he risks his life to save an enemy who had been keeping him imprisoned in a dungeon. Not by chance is he named for the companion of Roland, hero of the greatest of the Medieval heroic epics. Peters's ability to depict such a paragon and still make him a believable, three-dimensional character can count as a significant literary success. It has been suggested that Orlando (character) be merged into this article or section. ...

Olivier comes closer than any other character in the series to fulfilling the ideals of the French-Norman culture - perhaps precisely because it is not his native culture, but one which he chose deliberately after growing up.

The Aristocracy

A passage in "The Confession of Brother Haluin" introduces a nobleman which the reader (and Cadafal) did not meet before: "Here he came, Audemar de Clary, on a tall chestnut horse, a big man in dark, plain, workmanlike riding clothes, without ornament, and needing none to mark him as having authority here.(...) Not a man to be crossed lightly, but no one feared him. They approached him cheerfully and spoke with him boldly. His anger, when justified, might be withering, even perilous - but it would be just". This is fairly typical of most members of the aristocracy depicted in the series, who are described as fair-minded and just to their underlings, within the context of the hierarchal feudal social system and ideology.

The books do present some manifestly unjust, tyrannical and or outrightly cruel members of the aristocracy, though they are definitely in the minority. Faced with such, peasants can and do resort to the "safety-valve" built within the feudal system itself - i.e., escaping from their lord to a chartered borough where after a stay of one year and one day they become free. On several occasions, Cadfael facilitates and helps such escapes.

Also, cruel and unjust landowners may end up as the victims of the murder which Cadfael needs to solve - in which case the reader is curious to know the solution of the mystery, but is not particularly eager to see the perpetrator punished.

Crusades in the background

The Crusades form an important part of the backdrop to the books. There are Cadfael's own memories of his crusading life, which occur in virtually every one of the books, and the circumstances of Olivier's early life. In addition, most of Cadfael's knowledge of herbs and medicine was learned in the East, from more sophisticated sources than he would have found in England. (In the TV version of Virgin in the Ice, when Cadfael is treating a gravely wounded brother, the best remedy another brother can suggest is bleeding, which Cadfael scorns). This article is about the medieval crusades. ...

Also, several of the books feature returning crusaders who have central roles in the plot, while in others there are characters who depart England on the way eastwards. All of these crusading characters are depicted as sterling, model knights, brave and chivalrous, and the crusading enterprise itself is invariably regarded by all characters as a most noble and worthy cause.

There is occasional mention of acts of cruelty committed in the course of the Crusades. In conversation with a fellow crusader, Cadfael remarks, "After the killing that was done in Jerusalem, of so many who held by the Prophet, I say they deserved better luck against us than they had." In adding that his companion was never accused of any brutality, he implicitly passes judgment on the Crusade as a whole. (The Leper of Saint Giles) While on various occasions Cadfael is making remarks showing him not pleased with such brutalities, the references are rarely specific. Cadfael (as all other characters) never casts any doubt on the morality of carving out a Christian kingdom in the Muslim East and maintaining it by force; indeed, it would have been anachronistic to have him express such doubts, just as it would have been out of place to have a Muslim character to doubt the righteousness of the Muslims earlier carving their own empire out of the Christian Middle East; for Christians and Muslims alike, spreading a faith by the sword was at this time taken for granted.

However, his experience of the Crusades didn't lead to bigotry. Cadfael remembers Mariam, a Muslim woman as "well worth the loving," and had many other profitable friendships with Arabs and Muslims. His companion from The Leper of Saint Giles, who spent many years as a captive of the Fatimid Egyptians, agrees, saying he always found his hosts "chivalrous and courteous," who gave him medical help and supported him in his convalescence. The Fatimids, Fatimid Caliphate or al-Fātimiyyūn (Arabic الفاطميون) is the Shia dynasty that ruled over varying areas of the Maghreb, Egypt, and the Levant from 5 January 910 to 1171. ...

Getting along with everybody

Cadfael is remarkably capable of getting along well with all kinds of people. He is at home with everybody: with Normans as well as Saxons (a distinction very central to England at the time); with freemen and villein, with rich and poor burghers, with members of the low and high aristocracy.

One may surmise that this started already in his earlier days - as a crusader living with a Muslim woman and captaining a ship touching on numerous Mediterranean ports with their varying cultures and ethnicities. His ability to fit everywhere might be at least partly due to the fact that he does not completely belong anywhere - being originally from Wales, a society which, as depicted in several of the books, is to a great degree more tribal than feudal. It may also be due to his determination to live according to the vows he has taken as a brother in a monastery, and to emulate the life of the Christian messiah.

He is completely non-political, refusing to take sides in the civil war between the Empress Maud and King Stephen for control of England. His abjuration of politics may have been influenced by his holy vows as a monastic brother, and renunciation of the secular world. Here, too, he is on good terms with people on both sides of the conflict - his best friend Bugh is a staunch supporter of King Stephen, his beloved son Olivier just as much committed to the Empress Maud. Even when he goes to the front line itself, in the last book of the series, and enters a besieged castle (initially as an uninvited interloper) he quickly manages to gain the respect and confidence of combatants on both sides.

Cadfael has good contacts with the other Welsh living in Shrewsbury, such as the boatman Madog who has an important role in several books. He likes to speak his mother tongue, and is positively exuberant when getting an opportunity to go back into Wales. He is clearly of the opinion (which he discreetly keeps to himself) that many Welsh ways of doing things are better than the Anglo-Norman ones: for example, letting all of a man's acknowledged children - whether born in or out of wedlock - share in the inheritance, or recognizing degrees of crime, even homicide, which allows leniency to killers under certain circumstances, rather than the inflexibly mandatory capital punishment of Norman Law, administered reluctantly by Hugh Beringar and rigidly by his superior, Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote. Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ...

For all that, Cadfael had voluntarily chosen to join an English monastery rather than a Welsh one, and make his home in England (though in the part of England nearest to Wales). It would seem that traveling the world so much has made him a bit too cosmopolitan to completely fit in his own homeland, either. As a Welshman in England, and in concord with his vows, he remains in the world, yet not of it.

The Brother Cadfael stories

Short stories

• Published in A Rare Benedictine (1988):
  • A Light on the Road to Woodstock (set in Autumn, 1120)
  • The Price of Light (set at Christmas, 1135)
  • Eye Witness (set in 1139)

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Novels

1. A Morbid Taste for Bones (written in 1977, this episode is set in 1137)
2. One Corpse Too Many (1979, set in August 1138)
3. Monk's Hood (1980, set in December 1138)
4. Saint Peter's Fair (1981, set in July 1139)
5. The Leper of Saint Giles (1981, set in October 1139)
6. The Virgin in the Ice (1982, set in November 1139)
7. The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983, set in the Spring of 1140)
8. The Devil's Novice (1983, set in September 1140)
9. Dead Man's Ransom (1984, set in February 1141)
10. The Pilgrim of Hate (1984, set in May 1141)
11. An Excellent Mystery (1985, set in August 1141)
12. The Raven in the Foregate (1986, set in December 1141)
13. The Rose Rent (1986, set in June 1142)
14. The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1988, set in October 1142)
15. The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988, set in December 1142)
16. The Heretic's Apprentice (1990, set in June 1143)
17. The Potter's Field (1990, set in August 1143)
18. The Summer of the Danes (1991, set in April 1144)
19. The Holy Thief (1992, set in August 1144)
20. Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994, set in November 1145)

• Many of the novels are also available as audiobooks. Narrators for different editions of these audiobooks include Sir Derek Jacobi, Stephen Thorne, Patrick Tull and Johanna Ward.

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BBC Radio 4 adaptations

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• 1 --- A Morbid Taste for Bones
• 2 --- One Corpse Too Many

Produced by Bert Coules and starring Philip Madoc as Cadfael, with Geoffrey Whitehead and Timothy Bateson. Bert Coules is a radio writer, mainly for the BBC, who has produced many adaptations and original works, most notably the Sherlock Holmes radio series starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams/Andrew Sachs as Watson. ... Philip Madoc (born 5 July 1934 in Merthyr Tydfil) is a British actor who has had many television and film roles. ... Geoffrey Whitehead is an English actor born 1 October 1939 in Sheffield. ... Timothy Bateson (born April 3, 1926, London, England) is a British actor. ...

• 3 --- Monk's Hood
• 6 --- The Virgin in the Ice
• 9 --- Dead Man's Ransom

Telemovies

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Season I (1994):

• One Corpse Too Many (Episode 101 - Book 2)
• The Sanctuary Sparrow (Episode 102 - Book 7)
• The Leper of Saint Giles (Episode 103 - Book 5)
• Monk's Hood (Episode 104 - Book 3)

Season II (1995-1996):

• The Virgin in the Ice (Episode 201 - Book 6)
• The Devil's Novice (Episode 202 - Book 8)
• A Morbid Taste for Bones (Episode 203 - Book 1)

Season III (1997):

• The Rose Rent (Episode 301 - Book 13)
• Saint Peter's Fair (Episode 302 - Book 4)
• The Raven in the Foregate (Episode 303 - Book 12)

Season IV (1998):

• The Holy Thief (Episode 401 - Book 19)
• The Potter's Field (Episode 402 - Book 17)
• The Pilgrim of Hate (Episode 403 - Book 10)

Differences between books and films

Thirteen of the books were adapted for a series of television movies starring Sir Derek Jacobi although the sequence of the television episodes differs from the sequence of the novels. Within the individual teleplays, most are reasonably faithful to the books, being modified primarily to minimise the size of the speaking cast, the running time of the script, or the need for extravagant special effects. One episode, however, The Pilgrim of Hate, bears almost no resemblance to the eponymous book save the presence of a few characters sharing the names (but not the actions) of the characters in the book. Furthermore, in The Holy Thief, one of the characters is turned into a villain, whereas in the novel, he is not. In A Morbid Taste For Bones the climax sequence is altered, giving Cadfael more of a speaking role. “Telefilm” redirects here. ... Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (IPA: ) (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. ...

References

• Whiteman, Robin (1995). The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael, Revised hardcover edition, Little, Brown and Company (UK). ISBN 0-316-87655-0. 
• Cadfael Country: Shropshire and the Welsh Border by Rob Talbot & Robin Whiteman (1990, Macdonald)
• Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden by Rob Talbot & Robin Whiteman (1996, Little Brown)

External links

• Ellis Peters bibliography of first editions
• Cadfael at the Internet Movie Database
• Cadfael at EPisodeWorld.com
• Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends – a detailed fan episode guide