For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone's thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling--and shaping--thirteenth-century Europe
Set against the backdrop of the thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, troubadors, knights and mo[...]
"Attention, 'Game of Thrones' fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics"--"double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest"--"are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's "The Maid and the Queen.""(Laura Miller, Salon.com) Joan of Arc, t[...]
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.
Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remar[...]
"Attention, 'Game of Thrones' fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics"--"double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest"--"are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's "The Maid and the Queen."" (Laura Miller, Salon.com) Politically a[...]
The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicentre of political power and intrigue in 13th-century Europe. Marguerite accompanied her husband, King Louis IX of France, on his disastrous first crusade to the Ho[...]
The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trialand a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle A ges. On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in Avignon. She was twenty-two years old. Her cousin and husband, Prin[...]
In 1348, at the age of twenty-two, Joanna I, the queen of Naples, stood trial before the pope, accused of murdering her cousin and husband, Hungarian prince Andrew. Arguing her own case in Latin, she won her acquittal, and went on to become the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name[...]
How did an illiterate seventeen-year-old peasant girl manage to become one of histories most salient females? It is almost 600 years since Joan of Arc heard the voices of angels that would change her life for ever: in a breathtaking story her quest saved France from English domination and restored F[...]