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A true story of two women speaking from self-imposed exile. Separated by seven centuries and an ocean, their stories intersect when Marie Laure makes a solo pilgrimage. She wants to understand why Julian of Norwich lived from age fifty in a cell, an anchorage, attached to a church, during the Black Death plague. Her own so-called anchorage is a river porch attached to a Florida townhouse. How had she ended up in quasi-exile? Trying to make sense of...
22) The belt of gold
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In an exotic ancient land, a foreign stranger's sworn mission of vengeance leads him into the perilous circle of a ruthless Byzantine empress In the early years of the ninth century, the road home from Jerusalem winds through Constantinople for two Frankish noblemen-warriors. But when an encounter with a young woman running for her life results in the murder of Hagen the White's brother, he vows to find the perpetrators, no matter how highborn or...
23) Chivalrous
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"In medieval North Brittania, Gwendolyn longs to be a knight like her brothers but is bound by her parents' treatment of her as only a marriage pawn"--
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"In this graphic novel that combines medieval legends and folklore, the brutish feudal world, and devotion to family, William, the grandson of an elderly feudal lord in the thirteenth century, sets out on a labyrinthine journey to discover his father's killer"--Provided by publisher.
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Danza Si Puedes en una introducción a la enorme variedad de batallas peleadas en Escocia, o peleadas por los escoceses en los casi novecientos años en que fueron una nación independiente. La primera parte del libro sirve como una introducción a la historia escocesa, mientras la segunda sección retrata a los soldados escoceses a través de la historia. La parte tres da una guía alfabética y notas breves de los cientos de batallas, escaramuzas...
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A definitive, ground-breaking history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.
Sixteen hundred years ago, Britain parted company with Europe. As the Roman legions withdrew, the economy that had supported them collapsed. A world that had been peaceful, prosperous and predictable became dangerously insecure. Rich and poor huddled together for protection in ancient hill-forts, unoccupied since the Iron Age. Learning and literacy...
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In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the 'Romans' and the 'Normans', which saw the country invaded and partitioned. In point of fact, we have a considerable amount of information at our fingertips and the picture that should emerge is one of English ability in the face of sometimes overwhelming pressures on society, and a resilience that eventually...
28) Courageous
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Inspired by the vision of the young Lady Sapphira, Rosalind of Ipsworth joins a group of men, women, and children as a defender of the cross, seeking to free captives from prisons near Tripoli. Joining a crusade to escape humiliation at home, Sir Randel Penigree finds himself drawn to Rosalind as they partner to train and protect a group of adolescents.
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In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left on a shelf for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for further tests. When the results came back, he realized that he had in his possession what was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century Northumberland...
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Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularized in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honorably and be loyal to their lord until death if necessary. Later chivalry came to encompass activities such as tournaments and hunting, and virtues including justice, charity and faith. The Crusades were instrumental in the development of the code of chivalry,...
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Need something to do with your children while shut in by the Corona Virus? This reading and activities book will have something of interest for a wide range of ages. With many photo illustrations and an activities section at the end, it is designed for parents and children to read aloud and then engage together in discussions and drawing/coloring. It tells the story of a group of 8-year-olds who fly with their Grandmother to London from New York,...
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This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the 'lost' group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the 'Peak Sitters') by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the so-called 'Dark Ages' and are only known to us by the chance survival of less than a handful of documents....
33) Owane's Blades
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The story takes place after the Roman legions leave Britain. There are several High Kings who are nominally in charge of newly forming tribal kingdoms.
Vortigern, the High King, gives Kent to his Saxon allies. Other Saxons seize neighbouring Sussex.
Aurelius Ambrosius defeats Vortigern and, as High King, tries to drive out the Saxons, but settles for a treaty.
Owane Thantgwyn (bright teeth), nicknamed Arth (meaning The Bear), marries Ganumara and...
34) The book of Boy
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In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.
35) Dauntless
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Lady Merry Ellison, seventeen, will go to any lengths to protect "The Ghosts of Farthingale Forest," a band of orphans from her former village who hijacked ill-gotten gold meant for the king, capturing the attention of Timothy Grey, the ninth child of a baron, who longs to perform a legendary feat and earn a title of his own.
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¿Quién habría podido imaginar que un problema conyugal podría dar lugar a la fascinante historia del Rey Arturo? Pero esto es lo que ocurrió. El rey de Britania Uther Pendragón quería casarse con la bella Igraine de Cornualles para que se convirtiera en su reina.
Desgraciadamente, Igraine no estaba a favor de este matrimonio, por lo que Uther pidió ayuda a un mago llamado Merlín que resolvió el problema, y Uther e Igraine se casaron felizmente....
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In 1384 England, seventeen-year-old Evangeline, ward and cousin of King Richard II, tries to escape from an arranged marriage, dreaming of a life outside Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics, but when she runs away and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village, she finds herself embroiled in a tangled web that threatens England's monarch.
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Discover the Courageous Tale of King Alfred!
Embark on a thrilling journey through the pages of history with "King Alfred of England" - a captivating juvenile biography that brings the legendary monarch to life for young readers. Join us as we explore the medieval landscapes of England, where a young prince named Alfred rises to become a symbol of resilience and leadership.
Follow the footsteps of King Alfred as he navigates the challenges of the...
40) Alfred the Great
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Follow the life and rule of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex circa 871 to 899. Before he was king, Alfred fought in battle against the invading Danes. When his older brother, and current king, was killed during battle, the throne went to Alfred. Coronated at the young age of twenty-one, Alfred the Great inherited the Anglo-Saxon throne in a time of ongoing war. By the time he assumed the throne, the Danes had been actively invading and overthrowing...
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