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1) Menewood
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 694 pages : genealogical table, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the much-anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seventh-century Britain, a land of rival kings and religions poised for epochal change"-- Provided by publisher.
Hild is no longer the bright child who made a place in Edwin Overking's court with her seemingly supernatural insight. She is eighteen, honed and tested, the formidable Lady of Elmet, now building her personal stronghold in the valley of Menewood....
2) Hild
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest...
3) Pope Joan
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
1997, c1996
Physical Desc
viii, 422 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
5) Revelations
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral religious visions. Julian offers up a confession of her own:...
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