The iron & the loom
Subtitle: a novel of Italy
By: Flavia Idà
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: 1 map
Published: 2012
Place of publication: 296 p
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781625309983
Subjects: Fiction; Man-woman relationships; Normans; History
Other titles: Iron and the loom
Description: The year is 1136, the place Tropèa, a walled sea town in southern Italy during the Norman domination. Kallyna d'Àrgira, daughter of a fisherman, and a master of the loom, is pledged in marriage by her father to a man she hates. Into her life comes Dàlibor d'Hancourt, a Norman knight sent by the king to be the new governor. Their opposite stations pit them at first against each other, but a common threat draws them slowly together during a time that saw the founding of the greatest kingdom in Italy.