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Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 425 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human...
Author
Publisher
Lucent Press
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the origins, history, and religious, cultural, and economic effects of the Inquisition in medieval Europe. Includes a timeline, a glossary, illustrations, primary sources, and further reading.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xx, 636 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet...
10) Wild bird
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In fourteenth-century Norway, the plague has destroyed Rype's entire village, and as the sole survivor, she embarks on a sweeping adventure across Europe with the son of an English ship captain and a band of troubadours in search of a brighter future and a new home.
Author
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
12) Lapvona
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the vein of The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick, a priceless manuscript could be one woman's key to finding her missing grandmother--and to her own second chance. It's not just Ellora Lockwood's home that's being emptied as she prepares to sell--her heart seems to be empty too. Since the mysterious disappearance of her beloved Grandma June and separating from her husband, Alex, Ellora has felt adrift. Then comes an invitation from...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Historian Chris Wickham defies conventional views of the "Dark Ages" in European history with a work of rigorous yet accessible scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of new material and featuring a thoughtful synthesis of historical and archaeological approaches, Wickham argues that these centuries were critical in the formulation of European identity. Far from being a "middle" period between more significant epochs, this age has much to tell us in its...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region's most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester"-- Provided by publisher.
19) The axe
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication Date
1994
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
20) The snake pit
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Publication Date
1994
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English










