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1) Timeline
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Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century
feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not since...
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Hinges of history volume . 5
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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.
By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a level unknown in any previous society. For the first time, men...
By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their lives, medieval people exalted womanhood to a level unknown in any previous society. For the first time, men...
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This unique reference classifies the clothes and accessories of the 12th through the 15th centuries along social lines. Garments of every type, from the wardrobes of peasants and nobility, appear in over 200 period illustrations and patterns. Helpful advice covers: choosing fabrics, placement of seams, draping and folding garments, more. 203 black-and-white illustrations.
11) Medieval people
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
1992
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Describes thirteen typical people of the Middle Ages including a knight, lady, monk, pilgrim, merchant, doctor, and bishop and discusses how they lived, worked, and fit into the general social structure of the medieval realm.
12) Medieval places
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
1992
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Describes the wide variety of buildings and places that were in use during the Middle Ages including the castle, law courts, forest, market, port, and church and discusses how each developed, who lived and worked in each, and how each fit into the structure of medieval life.
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2023
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Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history.
It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other.
They’re...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest tells the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. Taught by Professor Jennifer Paxton, an honored scholar and a professor at The Catholic University of America,...
17) The castle
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2000
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Describes daily life in the castles of Europe from the years 500 to 1500.
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Usborne Publishing
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2006
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"The world of medieval knights in shining armor was both exciting and dangerous. Here you can see what life was like in the days when knights reigned supreme on the battlefield. Find out about the weapons they fought with and the armor they wore, from chain mail to plate metal"--Cover, P. [4].
20) The Decameron
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Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed as a series of "frame stories," or stories within a story, the narrative follows seven young women and three young men who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death. During ten evenings of their...
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