When Christ and His Saints Slept (Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1) - A.D. 1135. 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. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned. 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 comethe glorious age of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Plantagenets that would soon illumine the world.


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 ⚡️Book Title : When Christ and His Saints Slept (Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
⚡Book Author : Sharon Kay Penman
⚡Page : 784 pages
⚡Published February 6th 1996 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 1994)

When Christ and His Saints Slept (Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)

A.D. 1135. 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. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned. 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 comethe glorious age of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Plantagenets that would soon illumine the world.