Books set in 15th C
Style: Good
Attitude: Positive
20th-century Eloise is told the story of Joan of Arc by an angel after she is bitterly disappointed not to have been chosen to play Joan in the town's celebrations, as she was not born in Orleans.
Sympathetic retailing of the story of a warrior saint.
Historical, Biographical, War
Style: Good
Attitude: Edifying
Dickon is apprenticed to Master Whittington, former mayor of London and head of a house of Mercers, although Dickon's own family are victuallers - old enemies of the clothiers.
Historical, Family
Style: Good
Attitude: Edifying
Nicholas Fetterlock is the son of a Cotswolds wool merchant at the end of the 15th century when the wool had made such merchants and the country rich.
Historical, Family, Classic
Style: Good
Attitude: Positive
Stephen, whose father was bodyguard to his Lord of Suffolk, is under taken into the Lord's household when his stepfather remarries and his sister enters a convent.
Edifying and interesting historical read. Some ambiguous elements of witchcraft.
Historical, Classic, Family