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Take an exciting tour through a thousand years of history in Samuel Harding's The Story of the Middle Ages! This book brings the bold knights, brave explorers, and majestic castles of the Middle Ages to life through captivating stories and vivid detail.
Harding acts as the perfect guide to show you medieval life beyond just kings and battles. Learn what everyday people wore, ate, lived in, and did for fun in medieval times. Journey through market...
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Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments,...
43) Almost A Queen
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Travel back to the court of the French Renaissance Almost a Queen: Book One of the Three Graces Trilogy Who wouldn't want to be Queen? Cousins to the King of Navarre, the Cleves sisters witness the glamour and danger of the French royal court firsthand. Youngest sister, Marie is trapped in an unhappy arranged marriage with her cousin, Henri, Prince de Conde. Determined to make the best of her situation, she awaits the wedding of the King of Navarre...
45) Cathedral
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[2013]
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IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents an illustrated look at the step-by-step building of a thirteenth-century Gothic cathedral.
"Readers worldwide recognize David Macaulay's imaginary Cathedral of Chutreaux. Originally published in 1973, this critically acclaimed book has since been translated into a dozen languages and remains a classic of children's literature and a touchstone for budding architects. Cathedral's numerous awards include a prestigious Caldecott Honor and designations...
47) Emerald Knight
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For some, love comes swiftly at first glance, for the stubborn it can take a lifetime...
Since birth Lady Ginevra has been betrothed to Lord Wolfram, second son to the Count of Whetshire. There was never any question as to whom she would marry or who she would be. Life has been mapped out for her, and she's going to live happily ever after as a Countess. However, there is one complication to her plans. Her rogue of a future husband isn't taking to...
48) Las Cruzadas: Una guía fascinante de las expediciones militares durante la Edad Media que partier
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Si usted quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de las Cruzadas, entonces siga leyendo...Se podría decir que los reyes y nobles europeos de la Edad Media estaban locos por las cruzadas. La enorme cantidad de combatientes que periódicamente zarpaban hacia el Cercano Oriente para luchar contra los musulmanes son una prueba de la popularidad generalizada del aventurerismo en el extranjero en ese momento. La idea de una cruzada, en la que grandes ejércitos...
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From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The year is 1250 CE and the city is Troyes, capital...
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The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies's classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life...
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Esta es la historia de Balduino IV de Jerusalén, llamado el Leproso o el Santo (Jerusalén, 1.161—1.185), hijo del rey Amalarico que murió a los treinta y tres años de edad, un adalid de la cristiandad, un joven que luchó contra la adversidad dedicándose en cuerpo y alma a su reino.
A la muerte de su padre, el niño Balduino fue coronado rey, Guillermo de Tiro tutor del joven monarca se percató de la grave enfermedad del infante.
Balduino...
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From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of this definitive classic on medieval castles, which was a source for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series.
"Castles are crumbly and romantic. They still hint at an age more colorful and gallant than our own, but are often debunked by boring people who like to run on about drafts and grumble that the latrines did not work. Joseph and Frances Gies offer a book that helps set...
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Return to the days of the Norman invasion of England and fight alongside a nobleman serving the last of England's Anglo-Saxon monarchs. Wulf of Steyning, a Saxon thane loyal to King Harold Godwinson, boldly captures a castle in the Welsh wars, risks his life to rescue his shipwrecked sovereign, and combats Norsemen at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Wulf and his comrades resolutely stand by King Harold in a series of adventures that climax at the Battle...
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"In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her...
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A look at the brutal, brilliant fourteenth-century ruler, by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England. Holding power for over fifty years starting in 1327, Edward III was one of England's most influential kings-and one who shaped the course of English history. Revered as one of the country's most illustrious leaders for centuries, he was also a usurper and a warmonger who ordered his uncle beheaded. A brutal man, to...
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This classic study by a distinguished scholar surveys the major philosophical trends and thinkers of a vital period in Western civilization. Based on Maurice DeWulf's celebrated Princeton University lectures, it offers an accessible view of medieval history, covering scholastic, ecclesiastic, classicist, and secular thought in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. From Anselm and Abelard to Thomas Aquinas and William of Occam, it chronicles the influence...
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In 1476, an illiterate German street musician had a vision of the Virgin Mary and began to preach a radical social message that attracted thousands of followers-and antagonized the church. The drummer was burned at the stake. This swiftly moving narrative of his rise and fall paints a vivid portrait of 15th-century German society as it raises important questions about the craft of history.
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From castle to cottage, nearly every medieval dwelling possessed an enclosed plot for growing herbs, food, and flowers. This illustrated survey of gardening lore from the era between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance reveals a wealth of ancient secrets. Drawn from obscure sources-scraps of parchment from account rolls, charters, surveys, and registers-the book provides hitherto inaccessible knowledge about the plans, organization, and common...
59) Los Templarios
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Hace más de siete siglos, nueve caballeros de Cristo se reunieron para constituir una nueva orden, la orden del Temple, encargada de proteger a los peregrinos en Tierra Santa. Se dice que al entrar en contacto con las civilizaciones de Oriente, los caballeros del Temple se convirtieron en depositarios de una tradición secreta en la que se entremezclan creencias y prácticas inconfesables. Dos siglos después de su fundación, los caballeros fueron...
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De 1096 a 1291, Occidente y Oriente escribieron una de las páginas más terribles de su larga y agitada historia. En efecto, en el transcurso de dos siglos, se organizaron ocho Cruzadas, en las que participaron los más grandes señores y caballeros de Europa, con el fin de ir a combatir a Tierra Santa y liberar Jerusalén de manos de los «infieles». Desde la primera expedición, encabezada por Godefroy de Bouillon, que dio origen a los Estados...
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