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Hild
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- Label
- Hild
- Statement of responsibility
- Nicola Griffith
- Subject
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- trueWomen saints
- Christian saints -- England | Northumbria (Region) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHilda, of Whitby, Saint, 614-680
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueCivilization, Medieval
- trueEngland
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
- Hilda, of Whitby, Saint, 614-680 -- Fiction
- trueChristian saints
- trueAnglo-Saxon period (449-1066) -- 449 -- 1066
- trueWomen and nature
- FICTION / Literary
- true7th century -- 601 -- 700
- Christian women saints -- England | Whitby -- Fiction
- trueMedieval period (476-1492) -- 476 -- 1492
- trueBisexual women
- trueLeadership in women
- trueChristian women
- Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world--of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next--that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king's seer. And she is indispensable--until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early medieval age--all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. Recalling such feats of historical fiction as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, Hild brings a beautiful, brutal world--and one of its most fascinating, pivotal figures, the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby--to vivid, absorbing life"--
- Daughter of a poisoned prince and a crafty noblewoman, quiet, bright-minded Hild arrives at the court of King Edwin of Northumbria, where the six-year-old takes on the role of seer/consiglieri for a monarch troubled by shifting allegiances and Roman emissaries attempting to spread their new religion
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Illustrations
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- maps
- genealogical tables
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3557.R48935
- LC item number
- H55 2013
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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