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4) The unicorn
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cm.
6) Peasant
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
"Traces the life of a typical peasant in medieval times from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, holidays, and customs. Includes primary source quotes"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 734 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
"Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumored to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword-even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city's granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood. At every turn, the lives of Broken's defenders...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
189 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The history of the Middle Ages is one of believers and barbarians, popes and peasants. It is the story of competing empires and unforgettable leaders. The Middle Ages laid the groundwork for the growth of early modern Europe. From its bustling cities, distinguished universities, soaring cathedrals, and trade routes, Europe began to reach ut to the rest of the world.
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
343 p. : col. ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
"After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today. On visits to the great cities of Europe--monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 21 cm
Description
We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience. Find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, how they worked, how they entertained themselves, how they wed,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Description
Describes the disadvantages to being one of the many builders during the construction of a Medieval cathedral, including masons and quarrymen, and explains the long and arduous task of completing the cathedral.
14) The seventh seal
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Description
In medieval Sweden, a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
15) The time traveler's guide to medieval England: a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Physical Desc
342 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? Where will you stay? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? This is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. All facets of the everyday...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
112 pages
Description
"Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
Author
Series
Trilogía de la ciudad blanca volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
441 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
Vitoria, 2019. Los señores del tiempo, una novela ambientada en el Medievo, se publica bajo un misterioso seudónimo: Diego Veilaz. Victoria, 1192. Diago Vela retorna a su villa después de dos años en una peligrosa misión encomendada por el rey Sancho VI y se encuentra a su hermano Nagorno desposado con la que era su prometida, la intrigante Onneca de Maestu. Unai López de Ayala, Kraken, se enfrenta a unos deconcertantes muertes que son idénticas...
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Formats
Description
Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even Mouse doesn't know who -- or what -- she is. But she means to find out. When young King Ottakar shows up at the Abbey wounded by a traitor's arrow, Mouse breaks church law to save him and then agrees to accompany him back to Prague as his personal healer....
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