Time and Chance

515 pages

English language

Published April 9, 2002 by Putnam's.

ISBN:
9780399147852
OCLC Number:
47764369

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The long-awaited sequel to Sharon Kay Penman's acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance recounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition-and betrayal.He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich. It was said he was Fortune's favorite, but he said a man makes his own luck. Within two years, Henry had made his, winning the throne of England and exercising extraordinary statecraft skills to control his unruly barons, expand his own powers, and restore peace to a land long torn by banditry and bloodshed. Only in one instance did Henry err: Elevating his good friend and confidant Thomas Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury, he thought to gain control over the Church itself. But the once worldly Becket …

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Subjects

  • Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 -- Fiction
  • Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189 -- Fiction
  • Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Fiction
  • Queens -- Fiction
  • Great Britain -- History -- Henry II, 1154-1189 -- Fiction