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2) Castles
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
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xxii, 746 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
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English
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From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T'ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new...
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Magic tree house research guide volume 2
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119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.
6) Knights
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63 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm
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English
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Tells about the lives of knights throughout history while focusing on those of medieval times.
7) Knight
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72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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English
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Discusses the age of knighthood, covering such aspects as arms, armor, training, ceremonies, tournaments, the code of chivalry, and the Crusades.
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ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This book celebrates the vocabulary of the medieval period, the era of European history dating roughly from A.D. 500 to 1500 - one millennium of life, love, food, ideas, medicine, art and war. Over 4,000 words culled from those years are presented in Medieval Wordbook. In Medieval Wordbook you will discover the source of many words and phrases that make up part of our modern vocabulary, for example: corduroy, from the French corde du roi, "cloth of...
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Penguin history of Europe volume 2
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xi, 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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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...
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World eras volume 4
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xxvii, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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xviii, 307 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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"A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality -- a brilliant reflection of humanity itself."--Dust jacket.
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English
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In this book, the author, a medieval historian presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. He describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. While most histories of the period focus on the ideas and actions of the few who wielded power and stress how different medieval people...
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Hinges of history volume 5
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343 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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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...
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English
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In the winter of 1271, death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, and her subinfirmarian, Sister Anne, to save the child with their prayers and healing talents. Escorting them to the remote fortress is Brother Thomas, an unwilling monk fighting his private demons. Death may be denied once in...
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