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Anne Echols

    Anne Echols se primárně zaměřuje na literární zkoumání života žen ve středověku. Její první historická fikce navazuje na její předchozí práci v oblasti nebeletristiky, kde se věnovala stejnému období. Autorka se ve své tvorbě snaží oživit minulé životy a nabídnout čtenářům nový pohled na historické události skrze své postavy. Její styl je pečlivý a zaměřený na detail, aby co nejvěrněji zachytila ducha doby.

    Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages
    A Tale of Two Maidens
    • Felise's debtor father has disappeared on a merchant journey; her guardian is plotting to marry her to a stranger; and the Hundred Years' War rages all around her. She fears that France will soon be held captive, just as she is- but when Joan of Arc blazes into history and Felise's life, everything changes.

      A Tale of Two Maidens
    • "Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium. With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world.' "-John Bugge, Emory University

      Between Pit and Pedestal: Women in the Middle Ages