December 1, 1135: Chaos breaks loose with the death of Henry I. What follows is 20 years of bloodletting, an unbridled quest for power, and total anarchy. This is the first in a trilogy of historical novels that follows the lives of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine who together shock the medieval world.
This second installment in Penman's trilogy focuses on Henry the second and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine--and his advisor Thomas Becket, with whom he will come into desperate conflict.
This is an absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and France, centring on King John of England, younger brother to the brilliant Richard Lionheart, Joanna, his illegitimate but recognised daughter and Llewellyn Ab Iowerth, Prince of Gwynedd, a bitter opponent of English ...
This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with "Here be Dragons", continued with "Falls the Shadow" and is now completed with "The Reckoning". The major figures in "The Reckoning" are the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The ...
This novel about the struggle for power in England in the Middle Ages centres on the life of Simon de Montfort, a French nobleman who came to England to lay claim to an earldom, married the King's sister, and eventually mounted a civil war against Henry III.
The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman's trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine offers a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal.
King Richard the Lionhearted is imprisoned in Germany, and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is desperately trying to ransom him. When a major component of the ransom vanishes, Eleanor calls upon Justin de Quincy to recover it.
As Eleanor of Aquitane's life and reign as Queen of England come to an end, she searches vainly for her oldest son and heir, Richard Lionheart, missing some two months. When Justin de Quincy accepts a dying man's request to deliver a message to the Queen, he becomes part of the effort to thwart the ambitious Prince John and put Richard on the ...
While Prince John is prepared to do a great deal to clear his way to the throne--including scheming with England's enemies to ensure that his brother King Richard remains imprisoned in Germany--he apparently will not stoop to regicide. When a letter surfaces that falsely claims that Prince John does indeed have murder on his mind, the prince asks ...
"The Sunne in Splendour" is a magnificent historical novel about Richard III. Set against a vast, colourful canvas, it covers the whole period of The War of the Roses opening with Richard as a child of seven and following him through a turbulent youth and manhood to his betrayal and death at The Battle of Bosworth Field. The historical detail is ...
This is the second medieval mystery from Sharon Penman, following Justin de Quincy, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor. His duty is clear: to restrain his brother Prince John in his relentless quest for the throne, and his dangerous pacts with the French king. What does the murder of an innocent pedlar's daughter in a churchyard in Cripplegate ...
A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III---a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by historyIn this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III---vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower---from his maligned place in history ...
As Eleanor of Aquitane's life and reign as Queen of England come to an end, she searches vainly for her oldest son and heir, Richard Lionheart, missing some two months. When Justin de Quincy accepts a dying man's request to deliver a message to the Queen, he becomes part of the effort to thwart the ambitious Prince John and put Richard on the ...
King Richard the Lionhearted is imprisoned in Germany, and his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is desperately trying to ransom him. When a major component of the ransom vanishes, Eleanor calls upon Justin de Quincy to recover it.
Leonor de Aquitania (1122-1204), la mujer que escandalizo al mundo al divorciarse del que seria rey de Francia (Luis VII) para casarse con Enrique II, tiene motivos para suponer que los rumores que dan por muerto a su hijo Ricardo Corazon de Leon son falsos, pese a que hace meses que nadie sabe nada de el. Justin de Quincy, un joven hijo de un ...
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