Bøger om År 1400 til 1499

A father haunted by his past and the impact of a shocking fact of history on his life. A mother determined to move on from a still-longed-for past, and failing. A fearless Duchess, refusing conformity. A hermit friar wrestling with his past, and the looming power of the Church. A daughter, unwanted by her mother and denied choice over her life who finds solace in books and learning, and within an unhappy arranged marriage and heartbreak, a calling of wolves. Each in their own way on a quest - driven by a need to resolve the past, to reckon with the present, to create a life worth living. But at what cost?Set in seventeenth-century France, during the reign of Louis XIV, in a Europe torn by war, poverty, deadly disease, religious persecution and life-threatening weather-events, Jeanne-Marie Bouvier Guyon, her family and wider community play out their lives against a background of both the grandeur and fateful realities of the time.

'This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.'Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on constant display. A city where women are seen but not heard.Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a family of painters - men and boys. She knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future. She belongs to her father and will belong to a husband.As Artemisia patiently goes from lesson to lesson, perfecting her craft, a mysterious tutor enters her life. Tassi is a dashing figure, handsome and worldly, and for a moment he represents everything that a life of freedom might offer. But then the unthinkable happens. A violent act that threatens Artemisia's honour, and her virtue. In the eyes of her family, Artemisia should accept her fate. In the eyes of the law, she is the villain.But Artemisia is a survivor. And this is her story to tell.