Royal witches : witchcraft and the nobility in fifteenth-century England
(2020)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
133.430941/HOLLMAN,G

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 133.430941/HOLLMAN,G Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2020
©2020
DESCRIPTION

320 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781643133324, 1643133322 :, 1643133322, 9781643133324
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Magic in the late medieval period -- Joan of Navarre. Duchess of Brittany ; Our most dear mother ; In the most evil and terrible manner imaginable -- Eleanor Cobham. A very noble lady ; From mistress to princess ; The Duchess and the Witch of Eye ; Alle women may beware by me -- Jacquetta of Luxembourg and Elizabeth Woodville. Lively, beautiful and gracious ; From woods to rivers ; A common noise of witchcraft ; The mother, the queen and the mistress ; A royal coven of witches

This story of four royal women, their lives intertwined by family and bound by persecution, unravels the history of witchcraft in fifteenth-century England