The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

Overview

In the hushed, labyrinthine halls of a 14th-century Italian abbey, a revered Franciscan friar and his astute novice arrive, tasked with a vital theological debate. Yet, their scholarly mission is swiftly overshadowed by a series of bizarre and brutal deaths, plunging the cloistered community into a chilling atmosphere of fear and suspicion. As the body count rises, a dark conspiracy begins to unravel, suggesting that something far more sinister than theological discord lurks within the abbey’s ancient stone walls, a secret that some will kill to protect.