The complete online text of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer.

Sax Rohmer, one of the most popular and influential thriller writers of the first half of the twentieth century, owes his continued renown principally to the international popularity of the character of Dr. Fu Manchu, whom he created in 1911. Born Arthur...

What could it mean to a medieval monastic community to own a valuable object? Certainly, property in general was crucial to the survival of a stable community, ideals of poverty and the thirteenth-century Franciscan experiment in radical poverty notwithstanding. More specifically, what did...

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