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Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a short study of the development and daily life of Medieval Europe and provides information on the feudal system, Christian church, peasants, noblemen, and monarchs, as well as plagues, punishments, and primitive medical care.
3) Knight
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the age of knighthood, covering such aspects as arms, armor, training, ceremonies, tournaments, the code of chivalry, and the Crusades.
4) The knight
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes aspects of medieval European knights' lives and deaths including equipment, chivalry, castles and siegecraft, the Crusades, mercenaries, the joust, and funeral rites, weaving dramatic narrative about several particular knights throughout; and includes a glossary and further-reading list.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the important events, dates, and civilizations that shaped the early Middle Ages including invasion by Germanic tribes, early Christian church, feudalism, Islam, the Byzantine period, and the Vikings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the important events, dates, and civilizations that shaped the late Middle Ages including William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest, the Crusades, European trade routes, the Black Plague, and more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looks at ancient Maya texts and images, explains what they say, and discusses why they seem to indicate the world will end on December 21, 2012, examines Maya prophecy in the larger context of who they were and how they viewed the world, and argues that millenarianism actually originated in Mediterranean and Western European civilizations.
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Explores how the rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science that took place in the Middle Ages created the foundations of modern Western civilization.
13) Rosehaven
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hastings of Trent is terrified when she sees the man her father has chosen to be her husband, and the clashes between Severin the warrior and his independent wife begin even before the wedding. Eventually the two find much to admire in one another and that admiration leads to love.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Justin de Quincy, the illegitimate son of a high cleric, becomes invaluable to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine when he delivers a letter to her with information about the fate of her first-born son, Richard Lionheart, England's king.
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