Volver a Carranque

Constantinople, year 389. On a sunny March morning, a long procession leaves the Church of the Holy Apostles carrying a coffin. Your destiny, Carranque. At the head, Achantia, her widow, fulfills the last wish of her husband: to return to Hispania. Thus begins this novel in which Bernabé Mohedano recreates the life and long journey of one of the most influential men in the Empire and right-hand man of Emperor Theodosius, Materno Cinegio, who died when he was about to be elevated to consul of the East. At his side, during his eventful life, along with characters of indelible historical significance such as Augustine, Damasus, Priscilian, Valentinian, Ambrose, Hypatia, Libanius or Flavius Theodosius himself, we travel through the Low Roman Empire. We are witnesses of the taste and luxury of the time; the wars in Africa, Persia, Britain, the Rhine or the Danube; the constant intrigues of the palace; the settlement of Nicene Christianity as the only official creed, the persecution of heretics; the integration of Huns and Goths in the Roman army or the consolidation of Theodosius as the sole master of the world until he divided the Empire between his two sons. Cinegio was a powerful man whose legacy still lives on, but who could not end his days in his fabulous Hispanic villa and it was his wife who fulfilled his wish to return to Carranque.