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Coles The Price of the Treaty: Brides, Brokers, and Broken Alliances Across the Courts of Europe at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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In the chancelleries and receiving rooms of fifteenth-century Europe, wars were not only won on battlefields — they were ended, extended, and reinvented at writing tables, where men with tired eyes pressed seals into cooling wax and wrote the names of young women into the margins of history. *The Price of the Treaty* by Rosamund Vetch is a richly imagined work of historical fiction that pulls readers into the shadowed world of dynastic diplomacy, where alliances are purchased with daughters and peace is written in ink on lamb's skin. At the heart of the novel stands Philippe de Ternay, a seasoned diplomat of fifty-two, whose decades of service have taught him precisely how little the words on a treaty resemble the lives they govern. Following the conclusion of negotiations in Arras, Philippe finds himself in possession of a troubling packet — and a morning appointment with the Countess of Luxembourg, a woman who knows all too well what it means to have one's family written into a supplementary article. Vetch brings rare psychological depth to her characters, tracing the quiet devastations of political marriages through the people who arrange them as much as those who endure them. The novel moves across the courts of Burgundy, Cleves, and Luxembourg with assured historical detail, capturing a world in which power flows through bloodlines and every betrothal carries the weight of a broken promise waiting to happen. What distinguishes *The Price of the Treaty* is its intimate register. Grand historical forces are rendered through small, precise gestures — a diplomat's fingers folding and unfolding the corner of a document, a countess who stands by the window so as not to be caught sitting, a young woman whose name is spelled correctly in all four syllables on a page she will never read. Here, history breathes. Readers who love the work of Hilary Mantel or Umberto Eco will find in Vetch a writer of comparable intelligence and care.
In the chancelleries and receiving rooms of fifteenth-century Europe, wars were not only won on battlefields — they were ended, extended, and reinvented at writing tables, where men with tired eyes pressed seals into cooling wax and wrote the names of young women into the margins of history. *The Price of the Treaty* by Rosamund Vetch is a richly imagined work of historical fiction that pulls readers into the shadowed world of dynastic diplomacy, where alliances are purchased with daughters and peace is written in ink on lamb's skin. At the heart of the novel stands Philippe de Ternay, a seasoned diplomat of fifty-two, whose decades of service have taught him precisely how little the words on a treaty resemble the lives they govern. Following the conclusion of negotiations in Arras, Philippe finds himself in possession of a troubling packet — and a morning appointment with the Countess of Luxembourg, a woman who knows all too well what it means to have one's family written into a supplementary article. Vetch brings rare psychological depth to her characters, tracing the quiet devastations of political marriages through the people who arrange them as much as those who endure them. The novel moves across the courts of Burgundy, Cleves, and Luxembourg with assured historical detail, capturing a world in which power flows through bloodlines and every betrothal carries the weight of a broken promise waiting to happen. What distinguishes *The Price of the Treaty* is its intimate register. Grand historical forces are rendered through small, precise gestures — a diplomat's fingers folding and unfolding the corner of a document, a countess who stands by the window so as not to be caught sitting, a young woman whose name is spelled correctly in all four syllables on a page she will never read. Here, history breathes. Readers who love the work of Hilary Mantel or Umberto Eco will find in Vetch a writer of comparable intelligence and care.
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