Menewood reexamines Bede’s history, highlighting Hild’s intelligence, leadership, and role during a time of war and political upheaval.
War: Sense and Nonsense Menewood is the second novel about Hild, known today as St Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. Almost everything we know of her comes from a single document, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People (HE), written fifty years after her death by...