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A desperate lady engages in a unique contract to gain an escort home in this medieval romance by the USA Today–bestselling author of Thief of My Heart.
It is a dangerous time for a woman to travel alone in England. That is why young Lady Rosalynde of Stanwood has an entourage of knights with her as she urgently returns home to her father. But when a gang of thugs attacks, she is forced to flee and search a nearby town for help. Although she...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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In Rexanne Becnel's award-winning debut novel, an innocent noblewoman is forced to honor a betrothal agreement with a ruthless warrior who is her family's most bitter enemy Lady Lilliane was betrothed to Corbett of Colchester at the age of fourteen, long before their families became sworn enemies. Years later, Corbett unexpectedly turns up to claim his beautiful bride and, by contract, her valuable dowry: Castle Orrick. Suspecting some royal intrigue...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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A history of the "bad girls" of England's medieval royal dynasties, this book covers the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies-Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France, and Anne Boleyn, for example-while others have not been written about outside academic journals. The appeal of these notorious queens, apart from their shared taste...
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Montgomery / Taggert volume 1
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English
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A Classic Love Story of a Fearless Lordand the Woman Who Tamed Him
Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the boldEnglish conqueror was called "the Black Lyon" for hislionlike ferocity. He had no match among enemies,or women . . . until he met Lyonene, the green-eyedbeauty whose fiery spirit equaled his own.
Through a whirlwind romance andstormy marriage, she endured every perilto be by his side, until vicious lies andjealousy drove her into...
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Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Examines the history of tournaments and jousts, activities which grew out of training exercises for knights to become some of the most prestigious, expensive, dangerous, and exciting events of the Middle Ages.
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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How would you feel if you woke up in a medieval castle tomorrow morning? What would your bed be like? What would you eat? What sights and smells would be around you? Whisking you back in time, this little book will show you exactly what it would be like to be there.
10) Knight
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
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IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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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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Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Princess Violetta, raised by her widowed father, the king, to ride and joust just like her brothers, is horrified when he announces plans to hold a tournament, the winner of which will win her hand in marriage.
12) Medieval Europe
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
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Liza Dawson Associates
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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THE BLUE FALCON IN LOVE AND WAR, SOME OATHS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN ... Riding into the arena under the furling blazon of the blue falcon, Sir Conan de Corbney accepts a token from the young beauty, Lady Chandra, sparking a romance foretold long ago. That is, unless Conans mother can help it. Colluding with her sons rival, Sir Tedric, Lady Udele secretly arranges a more lucrative marriage for her son and weds him to Edwina--Chandras older sister--while...
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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.
15) Timeline
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Pub. Date
1999
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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When a group of scientists learns how to travel through time, they enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.
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English
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Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, ipads, internet and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you're fortunate, horse-back, how will you know where you are or what to do? Where will you live? What is there to eat? What shall you wear? How can you communicate when nobody speaks as you do and what about money? Who can you go to if you fall ill or...
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English
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"An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet...
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