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Plot summary. In 1327, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his assistant Adso of Melk arrive at a Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation. The abbey is being used as neutral ground in a dispute between Pope John XXII and the Franciscans over the question of apostolic poverty.
Jun 14, 2024 · The Name of the Rose, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in 1980. Although it stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of ‘truth’ from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives.
Sep 24, 1986 · The Name of the Rose: Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin. An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Jan 1, 2001 · Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer.
The Name of the Rose is a 1986 historical mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. [3] Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
Complete summary of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Name of the Rose.
The Name of the Rose was written and published in the 1970s and 1980s, a period in which postmodernist theory was becoming an increasingly powerful force in European and American literary and intellectual life.
In the 14th century, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), a renowned Franciscan monk, and his apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater), travel to an abbey where a suspicious death has ...
After a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William von Baskerville, a respected Franciscan friar, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death.
Overview. 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances.
