Prisoners of Love. From Harem to Monastery. Women in the Middle Ages in the West and East

All-consuming love and fateful passion, destructive jealousy and endless self-sacrifice — that part of history we know little about, and its side where women ruled. Vasily Gavrilenko, writer and journalist, author of the bestseller "Flowers with Scars. The Fates of... Women in Russian History. Betrayal, Friendship, Violence, and Love" presents a second book about the difficult fate of women in history. This time, the author will immerse the reader in the semi-mythical world of the Middle Ages — from the era after the fall of Rome to the rise of the Mongol Empire. You can expect captivating and tragic stories about khan's concubines, beautiful ladies, their not always noble knights, about eastern rulers, court intrigues, and the harsh twists of fate that formed the basis of terrible fairy tales and legends.