Title:Claudette: A Woman of the Middle Ages
Author:Jean Lombard; Translated by Rachel Guyet
Price:AUD$25.00 (about USD$16.80)
Signed:By Author
ISBN:9781511495998
Item ID:LB00-258298
Quantity:1
Publisher:Self published, 2015
Illustrator:Rosemary Sinclair
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Very Good
In the small village of Castel Villa in Southern Burgundy, not far from the medieval town of Cluny, where the towers of the great Abbey reached to the sky, lived the heroes and heroines of this story. Claudette was born into a peasant family who struggled to survive and were often starving when their small harvest failed. Her life and that of her family changed dramatically when she went to work at the Chateau, to a tumultuous life she could not have imagined. In the Middle Ages, girls and women had to struggle to make their place. Labelled by the Church as the 'first sinners' and compared by misogynous clergy to the devil, they were at an enormous disadvantage 286 pages. Illustrator: Rosemary Sinclair. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction::Historical Fiction; Fiction; Inscribed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781511495998. Inventory No: 258298.