I’ve just posted on murders in the family of Almodis de La Marche on my Substack, Trobairitz Sleuth.
Tag: Almodis de La Marche
Medieval Murder Mystery
New post on my Substack. Christmas Sale of medieval fiction books on my website at the ridiculous sale price of £5 a book or £10 for a trilogy.
Occitan Female Lord – publication day!
Today is the publication day for Almodis: The Peaceweaver, my novel based on Almodis de La Marche, the 11th century countess of Toulouse and Barcelona. Almodis was a scandal, excommunicated, and one of the most powerful of a number of female lords in southern France and Catalonia in the early Middle Ages. She and her…
Voicing the Voiceless – medieval female protagonists
Almodis de La Marche, countess of Toulouse and Barcelona, was, according to the monk chronicler William of Malmesbury, ‘afflicted with a godless female itch’. Ah ha, I thought, she sounds like she should be the heroine of my first novel. After that first novel on Almodis, I wrote four more novels set in early medieval…
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