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Everlasting
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Kathleen E Woodiwiss
The reigning queen of historical romance, Kathleen offers her loyal audience an engrossing, medieval love story that is sure to delight them. Abrielle, a stunningly beautiful young lady dreads the marriage her stepfather has arranged. Desmond is an oafish, grotesque, yet wealthy squire and her greedy stepfather can't see past his wealth. Luckily, ...
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
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Einhard, Notker the Stammerer, David Ganz (Translator)
Einhard's "Life of Charlemagne" is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining ...
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Gentle Warrior
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Julie Garwood
From the bestselling author of Ransom comes an exquisite tender tale of love, adventure and passion!
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In the Hand of the Goddess
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Tamora Pierce
Fourteen-year-old Alanna of Trebound, now Prince Jonathan's squire, masquerades as a boy, Alan, until she gets her long dreamt of knighthood at the age of 18. The path leading up to her Ordeal, a knight's rite of passage, is littered with a host of difficulties. Not only must Alanna contend with her confusing feelings of love for the prince, she ...
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Name of the Rose
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Umberto Eco
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.
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Western society and the Church in the Middle Ages
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Sir Richard W Southern
The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative history shows how the concept of an organized ...
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Medieval Europe: A Short History
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Judith M Bennett, C Warren Hollister, Warren Hollister C
Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister ...
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Physician
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Noah Gordon
Set against the superstition and splendour of the eleventh century, the tantalising story of Rob J. Cole unfolds. A penniless orphan, Rob was blessed with a gift which, in the days of witchcraft, would send a man to the stake: he could sense the chill hand of death when it settled on the living. His skill quickened with the potency of knowledge ...
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
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Laura Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd (Illustrator)
Inspired by an illuminated poem from 13th-century Germany, this witty, historically accurate collection--the winner of the 2008 Newbery Medal--forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England. Full color.
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Conqueror's Kiss
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Hannah Howell
There is little hope for sanctuary in the midst of the tumultuous Scottish border wars, yet one woman may find safe refuge...in the arms of her sworn enemy...Jennet Graeme has witnessed terrible tragedy during the many years of strife between the Scots and the English. As Scottish invaders plunder her convent sanctuary, she defiantly resists the ...
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Catherine called Birdy
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Karen Cushman
Catherine, a feisty, outspoken and most unladylike 14-year-old living in the Middle Ages, chronicles her life over one year in a diary given to her by her brother in an attempt to make her more ladylike. Alas, alack, the plan does not work, but one does get to see what life in the middle ages was like, and how woman are subjected to a life full of ...
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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
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Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker
"Saving Paradise" offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution.
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A time to keep silence
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Those who know the author as a man of action and a travel writer of distinction will find here a different kind of journey but with the same fine art of description and reflection, for it is a graphic account of his travels to the Benedictine abbey of St Wandrille, the abbey of Solesmes, the Cistercian monastery of La Grande Trappe, and the rock ...
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Knights
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Linda Lael Miller
Gloriana, Lady of Kenbrook, is swept from a life in medieval England into the present.
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For My Ladys Heart
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Laura Kinsale
This special edition of a medieval romance classic comes with new cover art, a glossary of Middle English terms, and letter from the author, just in time for Kinsale's much-anticipated sequel "Shadowheart," scheduled for release in April 2004. Reissue.
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My Lord John
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Georgette Heyer
John, Duke of Bedford, grew to manhood fighting for his father, King Henry IV of England, on the wild and lawless Northern Marches. A prince of the royal blood, loyal, strong, the greatest ally that his brother - the future Henry V - was to have. Filled with the clash of bitter rivalries, and deadly power struggles, this is Georgette Heyer's last ...
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Civilization of the Middle Ages
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Norman F Cantor
Now completely revised and expanded, this comprehensive general history of the Middle Ages centers on medieval culture and religion rather than on political history, and retains the powerful narrative flow that made the earlier edition so accessible and exciting.
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The long ships; a saga of the Viking Age
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Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
Bringing alive the world of the 10th century, this book follows the Vikings as they raid the coasts of England - defeating Ethelred the Unready's army at Maldon. In particular, the book tells the story of one fighting man, Orm, the son of a famous pirate.
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The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover
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Michael Jecks
Bloody revenge on the streets of Paris threaten Baldwin's royal mission in the next novel in this brilliantmedieval crime series. Isabella, Queen of England, has been dispatched to France in an attempt to bring about peace between the two countries, and Baldwin must accompany her. But the day after their arrival, a servant is found murdered, with ...
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
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Thomas Cahill
The inimitable author Cahill turns his eye on the dawn of the modern Western world in this intelligent, beautifully written exploration of medieval Europe, the fifth book in his acclaimed 'Hinges of History' series.
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Medieval Europe: A Short History
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C Warren Hollister
For more than three decades, C. Warren Hollister nurtured this classic text of "Medieval European History". The text was profoundly marked by his clear historical vision and engaging teaching style. Now, Judith Bennett has updated this classic book, while striving to lose neither Dr. Hollister's vision nor style. In his preface to the eighth ...
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The Conqueror
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Brenda Joyce
In this searing medieval romance, notorious warrior knight Rolfe the Relentless claims an English castle and its Saxon lady as his bride. But it is Lady Alice's illegitimate sister, the mysterious and seductive Ceidre, who ignites Rolfe's passio to the point that e will risk treason to have her.
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The Conquest
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Jude Deveraux
Lovely Zared Peregrine was the pride of her family, a treasure her rough-hewn brothers would strive at any cost to protect from their ancient enemies, the Howards. The Peregrines had suffered loss enough. Thus Zared's brothers trained her in the arts of war, and dressed her in boy's clothing. Beyond the castle walls, none knew that the youngest ...
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Faith of the Early Fathers
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William A Jurgens (Selected by)
Taken together, these three volumes represent a basic English-language reference book of patristic works. Volume 1 ends circa 382; Volume 2 concludes with Julian of Eclanum (d. 454); Volume 3 ends with St. John of Damascene (d. 749).
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The Midwife's Apprentice
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Karen Cushman
Set in medieval England, this is the story of a homeless, orphaned girl named Brat whose life changes when she becomes an assistant to a midwife named Jane. Although the short-tempered Jane wants a mindless assistant, someone who will anticipate her needs and silently help her with her work, the observant Brat (whom Jane has renamed Beetle) begins ...
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