Secrets, Lies, and Consequences. A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protege's Unsolved Murder, Hardback/***

In May 1991, having received threats that terrified him, rising academic star Ioan Culianu entrusted a colleague with a mysterious set of papers. A week later, Culianu was murdered. What was in those mysterious papers? And what connection might they have to Culianu's death? The papers eventually passed into the hands of Bruce Lincoln, and their story is at the heart of this book. Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Author(s): Bruce (Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions, Middle Eastern Studies and Medieval Studies, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions, Middle Eastern Studies and Medieval Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School) Lincoln Number of pages: 352 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 19 Cover type: Hardback