![]() ![]() inventively animates a large cast continues to base her narrative on the firm ground of fact. "Penman once again tells a tale of kings and queens, singular destinies, and double-crosses. inventively animates a large cast continues to base her narrative on the firm ground of fact." " marvelous medieval pageant of a novel.Another jewel in already glittering crown." 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. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned. In When Christ and His Saints Slept master storyteller and historian Sharon Kay Penman illuminates one of the lesser-known but fascinating periods of English history. ![]() But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. 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. "A COMPELLING, WELL-WRITTEN EPIC.Penman is an accomplished novelist and certainly has staked a claim to medieval England as her literary fiefdom."Ī.D. ![]()
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