Dust jacket in very good condition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Author's signature on second page. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by...