![]() It's not as if I'd never read about her before, but let's face it, I've read lots of English history and I still can't always keep the Plantagenets and the Yorks and the Lancasters and the Stuarts and so on straight, plus there's that whole Cromwell interlude. ![]() This book was so good that I spoiled myself for the rest of the trilogy by, uh, looking up Eleanor of Aquitaine on Wikipedia. ![]() But 300 years before that was a much earlier civil war that lasted for almost 20 years, and was very much a squabble for the throne with a large cast of characters. ![]() Martin's Game of Thrones is loosely based on England's War of the Roses, which took place in the 15th century. 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.Įveryone knows that George R.R. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned. ![]() 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. ![]()
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