by Jean Plaidy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401467066
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«El nacimiento de un imperio» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (390 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the twelfth century, the novel focuses on Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II and Thomas Becket: a queen, a duke turned king and an archbishop in conflict with his sovereign. Ambition, marriage and the struggle for power mark the rise of the Plantagenet dynasty, from the Pyrenees to the North Sea.
First novel in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet Saga. The original publication dates from 1976; this Spanish-language edition came out in January 1994.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction set in medieval England; it is the starting point of the Plantagenet Saga.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
