When Christ and His Saints Slept: A Novel

In When Christ and His Saints Slept, the newest addition to her highly acclaimed novels of the middle ages, and the first of a trilogy that will tell the story of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, master storyteller and historian Sharon Kay Penman illuminates one of the less-known but fascinating periods of English history.

It begins with the death of King Henry I, son of William the Conqueror and father of Maude, his only living legitimate offspring.