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Catherine hanley matilda5/22/2023 Her book Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England (a biography of Louis VIII of France) was published by Yale University Press in 2016. In addition to fiction, Hanley also began writing popular non-fiction history. The Sins of the Father (2012) which was Editor’s Choice in Historical Novels Review. The books in the series, all published by The History Press, are: The novels are set against the backdrop of the baronial war in the early 13th century, when the nobles of England rebelled against King John and invited Prince Louis of France to take the throne, before some of them changed their minds following John’s death and the accession of his nine-year-old son Henry III. Īfter leaving academia she started to write historical fiction, and is the author of a series of medieval murder mystery novels featuring Edwin Weaver as the central character. She was as a contributor to the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology (Oxford University Press, 2010). While working as an academic she published a number of articles on medieval warfare and its portrayal in contemporary narrative literature she also wrote War and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature which was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2003. She gained a degree and a PhD at the University of Sheffield and was a postdoctoral researcher there on the Partonopeus de Blois project. Hanley was born in Perth, Western Australia. Catherine Hanley (born 1972) is a writer and researcher specialising in the Middle Ages.
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