The Book of the Lion Themes

You don't have to read too many pages before it's clear that war is a major player in The Book of the Lion. After all, it takes place in the middle of the Third Crusade and Edmund joins up with the...

In case you hadn't noticed, Edmund's got quite the moral compass in The Book of the Lion. He's constantly telling himself—and us—what's honorable, what's noble, what's right, and what's not. Wh...

Life can be a chore, especially if you're a servant and becoming a squire is your lucky break. Because let's be real, a squire is a glorified servant. So it goes for Edmund in The Book of the Lion,...

Over the course of The Book of the Lion, Edmund goes from a self-effacing servant to a squire fighting among fancy knights. Unlike so many other coming-of-age tales, though, we leave Edmund just at...

While the Crusades were first and foremost a religious fight, in joining up with the Crusaders, Edmund embarks on a journey to strange new places, coming into contact with people who look and live...

Today we're all about separation of church and state, but back in medieval England, religion was the foundation for everything and church and state were BFFs—hence the Pope calling for a war and...

Because you can't have good without evil, right? And you can't have God up in the mix in such a major way without sin coming into the conversation—we're talking both personally and socially, sinc...

Let's get one (er, two) things clear: Justice is about morality—what is just behavior or treatment—while judgment is calling a shot, either about someone else's actions or your own. We talked a...