Bibliograph

When Christ and his saints slept, Sharon Kay Penman

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When Christ and his saints slept, Sharon Kay Penman

Language

eng

Illustrations

genealogical tablesmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

When Christ and his saints slept

Oclc number

465079009

Responsibility statement

Sharon Kay Penman

Series statement

Eleanor of Aquitaine series, 1

Summary

In the wake of King Henry I's death in 1135, the Countess of Anjou, his beautiful daughter, prepares to claim the throne despite the reservations of the late ruler's barons, but her position is usurped by her cousin. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned. Sharon Kay Penman's magnificent fifth novel summons to life a spectacular medieval tragedy whose unfolding breaks the heart even as it prepares the way for splendors to come--the glorious age of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Plantagenets that would soon illumine the world

Target audience

adult

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