Almodis
The Peaceweaver
2nd Edition
Published on 10. July 2023
Book
Hardback
466 pages
978-1-7392700-4-9 (ISBN)
Description
Repudiated, kidnapped, excommunicated, desired.
At a time when a noblewoman's purpose is to produce heirs, Almodis resolves to create her own dynasty. Almodis' path to power and happiness is fraught with drama. Forbidden love and murder underpin this extraordinary story based on the life of a scandalous female lord whose descendants went on to rule in France, Spain and England.
Almodis de la Marche was 'afflicted with a Godless female itch', according to the monk chronicler William of Malmesbury but she was 'radiant upon Earth', according to her third husband, Ramon Berenger, count of Barcelona. What were the motivations, triumphs and griefs behind her scandal? A novel based on the life of the real eleventh-century Almodis de la Marche, countess of Toulouse and Barcelona.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
797 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7392700-4-9 (9781739270049)
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Tracey Warr was born in London and lives in southwest France. She worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of England. She was the co-curator of the Edge biennales. She was programme lead in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University and in Arts Management at Dartington College of Arts. She worked as a senior lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; Bauhaus University, Germany; Piet Zwart Institute, Netherlands; and Saint Francis University (US) in France. She established the Arts and Place and Poetics of Imagination MAs at Dartington Arts School.Her books and essays on contemporary art have been published by Phaidon, Routledge, The Barbican Gallery, Tate, Palgrave Macmillan, Intellect, Manchester University Press and Performance Research journal. She has also published five historical novels and a future fiction novella.