But, it is after Edward tears out three pages. Matthew and Diana manage to retrieve the manuscript.

Queen Elizabeth gives them permission to travel there because she fears Edward will create the famed philosopher's stone and hand it over to Emperor Rudolf II. They discover his assistant, Edward Kelley, stole the manuscript and now resides in Prague. Stephen warns Diana and Matthew that they have become complacent in their actions and are changing the past with their interactions.ĭiana and Matthew meet with Queen Elizabeth's astronomer, Dr. Diana relishes the time she gets to spend with her father, though it is over much too soon. Later, Diana encounters her father, Stephen, who has the power to time travel. After getting to know Diana and seeing the strength of her relationship with Matthew, Philippe relents and claims Diana as a member of his family. When Matthew is summoned to his family home at Sept-Tours, Diana gets to meet Matthew's vampire father, Philippe, who initially refuses to acknowledge the marriage or guarantee Diana's safety. She makes discoveries about Matthew as well, including that he is a member of the famous group she knows as the School of Night and a member of the Congregation (a board that governs creatures and sets rules, such as the one forbidding Matthew and Diana's marriage). Diana recognizes the names of many of Matthew's friends, including Sit Walter Raleigh, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Percy, and Thomas Harriot. They spend the first weeks of their time here without accomplishing anything.

Matthew already lived through the 1590s and expects that he will simply go about his business there while he and Diana search for a teacher and the manuscript. Now that she is being pursued, she does not have time to learn.Īs a student of history, Diana expects to step directly into society during the 1500s. This leads to a second problem because Diana has never learned to use or control her magic. After Diana is the first to get the book, other creatures immediately hone in on her power. She discovers it is “broken” with words scrambling all over the pages and three pages missing altogether. Diana, a student of alchemy who has resolutely refused to learn magic, retrieves the book at a library. Matthew and Diana believe the answer could lie in a mysterious book known to them as Ashmole 782. The first problem is that creatures (vampires, witches, and daemons) are dying out in the 21st Century. However, they have two significant problems. Despite rules against inter-creature relationships, the two are certain they are supposed to be together. In Shadow of Night, the second installment of the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness, Diana Bishop is a witch married to Matthew Clairmont, a centuries-old vampire. Shadow of Night (Book Two of the All Souls Trilogy) Penguin Group, New York, New York, 2013. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Harkness, Deborah.

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