Novel about Women of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance

 

I'm currently reading Lauren Groff's Matrix, a novel about the life of Marie de France, one of the women who contributed to the Twelfth Century Renaissance. I'll be writing a more full review later in the next Jousting Squirrel newsletter, but it's safe to say that I'm loving it so far. It's the story of one of Eleanor of Aquitaine's ladies who was sent away to run a nun's abbey due to her illegitimate birth. I was excited to find this novel as it is pretty helpful in identifying not only another woman of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance to research, but gives me a different way to read about her, through the power of fiction.