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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc

โœ Scribed by Goldstone, Nancy

Book ID
107570657
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
5 MB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

''Attention, 'Game of Thrones' fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politicsdouble-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interestare in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen**.''** (Laura Miller, Salon.com)

Joan of Arc, the brave peasant girl who heard the voices of angels and helped restore her king to the throne of France, astonished her contemporaries and continues to fascinate us today. Until now, though, her relationship with Yolande of Aragon, the ambitious and beautiful queen of Sicilymother-in-law to the dauphinhas been little known. In a stunning work filled with intrigue, madness, and mysticism, Nancy Goldstone solves the thrilling mystery by showing that if you pry open the Queen's secrets, you will find the Maid's. Caught in the complex dynastic battle of the Hundred Years War,...

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