El cantar de Liébana

The facet of Peridis as an excellent disseminator of medieval art and culture, developed in all media for more than forty years, is well known to the general public. Everyone who has seen or heard him on radio and television, let alone at short distances, knows that he is a splendid orator, full of wisdom as well as a sense of humor, with a very characteristic good nature that has made him very dear. for his countless followers. Lebaniego de pro (he was born in Cabezón de Liébana), Peridis creates in this his fifth novel with Espasa an original synthesis of all this knowledge and virtues, as well as a tribute to his native land and to the most illustrious of his countrymen, the monk Beato, author in the eighth century of some commentaries on the Apocalypse of imperishable fame. Intertwined in the novel is the history and vicissitudes of Beato in those remote and dark dawns of the Measured Age, when the entire Peninsula was about to be reconquered, with the vicissitudes, in our days, of Eulalia, a sixty-year-old, recent widow and possible, that to fill the emptiness of his days he signed up for a seminar on the blessed at the University of Valladolid. There she will meet the likeable Tiqui, a young alternative who will be her teacher in the codes of the contemporary world (as abtrusive for her as the medieval codices) and the eccentric Don Crisógono, a teacher who challenges his students to make a sensational discovery.