{"id":21720,"date":"2026-02-25T19:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21720"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:46:44","slug":"the-hidden-treasure-of-glaston-by-eleanore-m-jewett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21720","title":{"rendered":"‘The Hidden Treasure of Glaston,’ by Eleanore M. Jewett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was a teenager<\/strong> when I read The Hidden Treasure of Glaston<\/a><\/em>, by Eleanore M. Jewett. I remember enjoying it quite a lot. I re-read it now as part of my research for my Haakon book, and am delighted to report that it holds up pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is set in England in the 12th<\/sup> Century. The hero is a teenaged boy named Hugh, son of a disgraced nobleman. On his way into exile, Hugh\u2019s father leaves him with the monks at Glastonbury Abbey, as the boy was born lame and can never hope to be a knight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh is bereft at first, but soon finds that the monks are kindly \u2013 especially Brother John, the librarian, who begins teaching him the work of a scribe, for which he proves to have an aptitude. He also finds a friend, Dickon, an oblate (a boy given to the monastery by his parents), who swears him to blood brotherhood and shows him his secrets \u2013 the hidden passages under the monastery that he has found, and his \u201ctreasures,\u201d ecclesiastical items left behind in the passages when they were being used for shelter and escape from Viking attacks in the old days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also meet Bleheris, an old hermit who tells them stories of the legends of Glastonbury \u2013 of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. His great dream is to find the Grail himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Hugh does not tell the old man is that among Dickon\u2019s treasures he has found lost pages from an incomplete history of the Grail that is one of the abbey\u2019s treasures. The boys\u2019 adventures will lead them to the discovery of Arthur\u2019s grave, to the king\u2019s court, through fire, and finally to miracles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston <\/em>was published in 1946. I\u2019m not sure if they knew back then, as they do now, that the name of Joseph of Arimathea was never associated with Glastonbury before the time when this story is set. But if you\u2019re just looking for a fun story, a medieval adventure meant (especially) for boys, uncontaminated by Game of Thrones cynicism and perversion (and with Christian values), The Hidden Treasure of Glaston<\/em> works pretty well. The view of God is more Catholic than Protestant, but not in a way to put Protestants off greatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked it a lot, and recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a teenager when I read The Hidden Treasure of Glaston, by Eleanore M. Jewett. I remember enjoying it quite a lot. I re-read it now as part of my research for my Haakon book, and am delighted to report that it holds up pretty well. The book is set in England in the … Continue reading ‘The Hidden Treasure of Glaston,’ by Eleanore M. Jewett<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[5872,5873],"class_list":["post-21720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-eleanore-m-jewett","tag-the-hidden-treasure-of-glaston"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21724,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}