Bauer Barbara - Bíborbetűk

Some people think the Word is with God and the Plan is done.
And there are those who think it's better if the past is shrouded in obscurity. They are the ones who rule the world hand in hand. Ecclesiastical and earthly power. Both hold the spirit captive, muting the sound so that it can shape it into its own image.
The XV. At the beginning of the century, the plague reared its head again along the Rhine. Agnes, the barely 12-year-old girl, is left alone. His mother's last request is to find the Master, the stranger who is working on some mysterious invention deep in his workshop.
Agnes' father was a book copyist. The only thing he left to his daughter was the knowledge of letters and a memory of a book with a recipe for eternal life. This knowledge and a letter contribute to the fact that Agnes can work as an apprentice next to the Master. Here she meets Hans, the young novice who - just like Agnes' father once - works as a scriptwriter. And here he gets to know the knowledge, the thought, the truth, which at this time is the property of the privileged.
Agnes stays with the Master, Hans resolutely sides with God, and they part ways for a while.
However, the years of work, the faith in the printed letter, which could break the chains of darkness and give wings to the spirit, are threatened.

This time, Barbara Bauer takes the reader to the gates of the spiritual revolution, to the birthplace of book printing, to the world of Johannes Gutenberg, where the letter, which kills and redeems, printing, which can convey thought to thousands and thousands, brings light to the dark ages, while the ecclesiastical powers are working to ensure that the reign of darkness is not threatened.

"Among the novels I have published so far, I feel this volume is a milestone. Writing about the person who, by duplicating the book, gave people their past, thus creating the future, has been a cherished desire of mine for a long time. I have now put it on paper, it has been printed, it has been bound, so that it can take off. And whoever reads it enters another world, far into the past, to the place where all this was born."
Barbara Bauer