Loyal knight Fulke Fitzwarin loses his opportunity to become a castle-owner after a violent quarrel with King John.

"Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court -- men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills...

Lady Saura of Roget lived a lonely life of servitude - her fortune controlled by her unscrupulous stepfather - until she was summoned to ghe castle of Sir William of Miraval. The magnificent knight had once sworn to live or perish by the sword. But that was before his world was engulfed in agonizing darkness. Inglaterra, primavera de 1153. Lady Saura Roget es casi una esclava en manos de su padrastro, un hombre malvado que tiene el poder sobre el...

"With technical advancements including the widespread use of metal-detectors and a recent increase in the number of archaeological excavations nationwide, Britain in the Middle Ages draws on a depth of knowledge and research to dispel the common misconception of the 'Dark Ages' as an era characterized by chaos and violence. Redefining everything from the role of the Vikings - conventionally depicted as rapists and pillagers but here shown to have...