What are the motifs in The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman?

Coming of age is recurring idea. The reader follows Hugh de Witton from boyhood to adulthood through the pages of this novel. The story begins with Hugh as a fourteen-year-old orphan living with the monks in an Abbey in Evesham. He is generous and open, but has no hope for the future. He will soon be forced to leave the care of the monks and will be destitute in the world with nothing. When Bran enters the Abbey wounded, Hugh is amazed at his good fortune. Bran will lead him to adventure.