About this ebook
This book is Part One - the events of 1106-1108, in the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Land. Part Two (Approach the Throne) tells the story of the Palladium from the Holy Land to France, in the hands of four crusaders (and future Knights Templar), Godfrey, Hughes, Roland and Gondamer, against the background of the rise of France and Burgundy, the rebirth of trade at the Champagne fairs and the new monasticism of Bernard of Clairvaux.
About the author
Marc Yves Lane (1978 - ) was born in Sydney, Australia, and lives in London with his partner. He has degrees in law, architecture and urban design, and has practiced in all three fields.
Marc has been writing since an early age. He began a sci-fi epic at age 9, which he may yet return to in some form in the fullness of time. In the meantime, he enjoys earthbound forgotten histories.
In school, perplexed by the pinhole-camera approach to history, he set himself the task of learning how we came from 'there' to 'here'. In 2005 (thanks to three books - David Keys' "Catastrophe" and Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel" and "Collapse"), he finished the outline of this understanding, and is now fleshing out the details.
Palladium: Eastern Empires is his first published book.
