In the Company of Fools

About the author

Tania Bayard is a freelance writer and lecturer specializing in medieval art, culture, and horticulture. She has taught art history at Fordham, Rutgers, and Hofstra universities and is the author of a number of non-fiction books, including A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century. Previously, she was the curator of the Biblical Garden at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and assistant horticulturist at The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Summary

Christine de Pizan is shocked when the Duke of Orleans' fools find a baby in the palace gardens. Was there really a wicked plan to swap the child for the queen's own daughter and blame the Duchess of Orleans? Who would commit such an evil act, and why? Convinced of the duchess's innocence, Christine is determined to uncover the truth.

Product details

• Authors: Tania Bayard, Bayard Tania
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781780296784
• ISBN: 978-1-78029-678-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: A Christine de Pizan Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical mysteries, France, FICTION / Historical / Medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: women sleuths