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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sourcesby John SteinbeckISBN 0374523789 (0-374-52378-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Hardcover, Heinemann - The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights : From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and Other Sources: ISBN 0374523789 (0-374-52378-9)
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicleby G.N. GarmonswayISBN 0460106244 (0-460-10624-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicleby Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. EnglishISBN 0415921295 (0-415-92129-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Anglo-Saxon Chroniclesby Anne Savage, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517140799 (0-517-14079-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Anglo-Saxon Chroniclesby Christopher Pick, Anne SavageISBN 0434982105 (0-434-98210-5)
Hardcover, Phoebe Phillips
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: The Courage of Kings, the Goodness of Saints and the Romance of English Historyby Anne SavageISBN 0312037406 (0-312-03740-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Atlas of Medieval Europeby Angus MacKay, David DitchburnISBN 0415122317 (0-415-12231-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Atlas of Medieval Manby Colin PlattISBN 0312115490 (0-312-11549-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atlas of Medieval Man'Book summary:Provides an overview of the world that spans 5 centuries & an astonishing period of human progress. It begins in the year 1000 & ends in 1500 -- soon after Columbus is known to have reached the New World. Each chapter covers a century & charts the concurrent developments -- in politics, religion, warfare, exploration, technology, &, chiefly, material culture -- that occurred in the known parts of the world during those 500 years. Emphasizes the arts & architecture but also outlines the historical background to each century, introducing the major events & the social & political forces that were instrumental in shaping the cultures of the world. Color & black & white illustrations. [via]
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Atlas of Medieval Manby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517361132 (0-517-36113-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Bloodfeud: Murder And Revenge In Anglo-saxon Englandby R. A. FletcherISBN 0195179447 (0-19-517944-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodfeud: Murder And Revenge In Anglo-saxon England'Book summary:On a gusty March day in 1016, Earl Uhtred of Northumbria, the most powerful lord in northern England, arrived at a place called Wiheal, probably near Tadcaster in Yorkshire. Uhtred had come with forty men to submit formally to King Canute, an act that completed the Danish subjugation of England and the defeat of Ethelred the Unready, to whom Uhtred had been a loyal ally and subject. But, as Richard Fletcher recounts in the electrifying opening to Bloodfeud, "Treachery was afoot." With Canute's connivance, Thurbrand, Uhtred's old enemy, ambushed and slaughtered the earl and his men. "This act of treachery and slaughter set in motion the chain reaction of counter-violence and yet further violence, a bloodfeud that lasted for three generations and almost sixty years."
Those sixty years were also some of the most unsettled in English history. Tracing the bloodshed through three generations, Fletcher throws light on an Anglo-Saxon culture that would soon be wholly replaced by a new Norman regime. Fletcher shows us in minute detail the concerns of Anglo-Saxon life: how difficult it was to govern England, particularly the region north of the Humber River, the millennial power of the church, and the important role women and marital alliances played in renewing old feuds. Against this rich context the few reliable facts of the enmity between Uhtred and Thurbrand are "coaxed and entreated into utterance."
Bloodfeud shows us a powerful historian at work piecing together what we do and don't know, what may be reasonably surmised, and where we must simply let the imagination take over. Fletcher presents with superb clarity and wit the most stimulating account of life in pre-Norman England to be found anywhere. [via]More editions of Bloodfeud: Murder And Revenge In Anglo-saxon England:
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The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0140441921 (0-14-044192-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Book of the Courtierby Baldesar CastiglioneISBN 0385094213 (0-385-09421-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Book of the Courtierby Daniel Javitch, Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0393976068 (0-393-97606-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury st Edmundsby De Brakelond JocelinISBN 0192818104 (0-19-281810-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury st Edmundsby Diana Greenway, Jane E. Sayers, De Brakelond Jocelin, JocelinISBN 0192838954 (0-19-283895-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyesby Chretien, David StainesISBN 0253354404 (0-253-35440-4)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyesby David StainesISBN 0253207878 (0-253-20787-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyes'Book summary:"[A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately... it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of Chrétiens originals.... The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style.... [T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts." Speculum
"[A] significant contribution to the field of medieval studies [and] a pleasure to read." Library Journal
"These are, above all, stories of courtly love and of knights tested in their devotion to chivalric ideals (with passion and duty often at odds); but they are also thrilling wonder stories of giants, wild men, tame lions, razor-sharp bridges and visits to the Other World." Washington Post Book World
"This tastefully produced book will be the standard general translation for many years to come." Choice
This new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chrétien de Troyes famous romances.
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Conquering Familyby Thomas Bertram CostainISBN 0445085118 (0-445-08511-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conquering Family'Book summary:Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.
The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.
"Brilliant, swift-moving, full of action, rich in color." (B-O-M-C News) [via]
Curious Myths of the Middle Agesby Sabine Baring-GouldISBN 0403063094 (0-403-06309-4)
Hardcover, Native Amer Books Distributor
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Curious Myths of the Middle Agesby Outlet Book Company StaffISBN 0517639920 (0-517-63992-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Curious Myths Of The Middle Ages: The Sangreal, Pope Joan, The Wandering Jew, And Othersby S. Baring-GouldISBN 0486439933 (0-486-43993-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Death Comes As Epiphanyby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312854196 (0-312-85419-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Death of King Arthurby James CableISBN 0140442553 (0-14-044255-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Deryni Checkmateby Katherine KurtzISBN 0441013414 (0-441-01341-4)
Hardcover, Ace Books
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The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuryby Georges DubyISBN 0297766635 (0-297-76663-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Early Medieval Artby John BeckwithISBN 0275701905 (0-275-70190-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Early Medieval Art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesqueby John BeckwithISBN 050020019X (0-500-20019-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225by Robert BartlettISBN 0199251010 (0-19-925101-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225by Robert Merrill BartlettISBN 0198227418 (0-19-822741-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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This was a period in which the ruling dynasty and military aristocracy were deeply enmeshed with the politics and culture of France. The book describes their conflicts and their preoccupations: the sense of honour, the role of violence, and the glitter of tournament, heraldry, and Arthurian romance. The author explores the mechanics of their government, and analyzes the part played by the Church at a time of radical developments in religious life and organization. He investigates the role of ordinary men and women: the fundamental importance of the peasant economy in the growing urban and commercial arenas; and also their outlook on the world, including their views on the past; on gender and behavior; on animals; the undead, and the occult. The result is a fascinating and complex account of a period which begins with conquest and ends in assimilation. [via]More editions of England under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225:
English Medieval Houseby Margaret E. WoodISBN 006091078X (0-06-091078-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Flowering of the Middle-Agesby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517460718 (0-517-46071-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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For My Lady's Heartby Laura KinsaleISBN 0425140040 (0-425-14004-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.H.C. DavisISBN 0582014042 (0-582-01404-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.I. Moore, R.H.C. Davis, Joanna HuntingtonISBN 058278462X (0-582-78462-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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A History of the Vikingsby Gwyn JonesISBN 0192801341 (0-19-280134-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Hundred Years Warby Desmond SewardISBN 0140283617 (0-14-028361-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Years War'Book summary:From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London; Charles V, who very nearly overcame England; and the enigmatic Charles VII, who at last drove the English out. Desmond Seward's critically-acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict. [via]
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John Steinbeck : Acts of King Arthurby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517368366 (0-517-36836-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck : Acts of King Arthur'Book summary:The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them. And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the stately rhythms of Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing."
Also included are the letters John Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the editor of this volume, about his work on King Arthur.John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was the author of many books, including Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath (which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939). In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. As the author notes in his introduction to The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights: "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them. And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the stately rhythms of Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing."
Also included in this edition are the letters Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the editor of this volume, about his work and thought concerning the Arthurian legends."[Steinbeck] embellishes Malory's spare legend with a richness of detail that transforms the visions, making it no one but Steinbeck's."John Gardner, The New York Times Book Review[via]More editions of John Steinbeck : Acts of King Arthur:
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissanceby John BoswellISBN 0226067122 (0-226-06712-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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King Harald's Sagaby Magnus Magnusson, Paulsson HermanISBN 0140441832 (0-14-044183-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Kristin Lavransdatterby Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally, Brad LeithauserISBN 0143039164 (0-14-303916-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kristin Lavransdatter'Book summary:"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."
-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs
"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star
"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." -- Commonweal
"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."
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"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be."
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The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.Dby James RestonISBN 0385483368 (0-385-48336-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D'Book summary:With the turn of the century approaching, talk of the apocalypse runs rampant. In The Last Apocalypse, James Reston reminds us that such talk is nothing new. At the previous turn of the millennium, Vikings, Moors, and Hungarian Magyars beseiged Europe with wanton cruelty and violence, spreading fear and destruction wherever they went and leading many to believe that the end of the world was near. Such colorful characters as Sigrid the Haughty, Svein Forkbeard, Ethelred the Unready, and Al-Mansor the Illustrious Victor were the heroes and villains of the era.
Reston, author of previous works that include Galileo: A Life and Sherman's March, evokes the historical essence of the time using limited legal and church documents, archaeological artifacts, and rare contemporary literary accounts. Reston's history reads like an engrossing novel, carefully crafted without getting bogged down in dry details. He skillfully interweaves the complex story of how each European country dealt with these changes, bringing the period back to life.
Reston portrays A.D. 999 as a profound turning point for mankind, mapping out the fate of each country as the Christian kingdoms, unified in belief, brutally conquered and imposed the will of Christianity upon heathen Europe. In the space of 60 years, the established ruling elite were slaughtered or forced to succumb to the turning religious tide. By A.D. 1050, the sign of the cross fell like an ominous shadow across Europe, paradoxically signifying the dawn of peace under Christian unity. [via]
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Medieval English Literatureby Douglas Gray, Julia Boffey, Joseph Burney TrappISBN 0195134923 (0-19-513492-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval English Literature'Book summary:Medieval English Literature is the first volume of the comprehensive Oxford Anthology of English Literature to be published in a second, expanded, and fully revised edition. It provides an authoritative and representative selection from the vast riches of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature of the period between AD 700 and AD 1500. The texts are presented either in full or in ample selections, helpfully and fully glossed and annotated according to the most recent scholarship. They are situated in their cultural context through general and particular introductions and through the carefully chosen illustrations, many of them new. Texts, annotations, introductions, and the bibliography have been thoroughly revised and brought up to date, and there is a full glossary of literary and historical terms.
Anglo-Saxon poetry appears in modern verse translation. In addition to the whole of Beowulf (Edwin Morgan's translation), elegies, The Dream of the Rood, and The Battle of Maldon, there is a sampling of wisdom literature and of biblical epic made with particular reference to the situation of women in Anglo-Saxon society. The generous choice of Chaucer's poetry, in a lightly modernized, glossed text, now includes, as well as the General Prologue and the tales of the Miller, the Nun's Priest, the Wife of Bath (with her Prologue), the Franklin, and the Pardoner, an extract from The Legend of Good Women, and others from the Scottish Chaucerians Henryson and Dunbar. For romance, the whole of the third book of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the entire text of Sir Orfeo, both glossed, have been added to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (revised translation by Keith Harrison). The selections from Malory's Morte Darthur have been augmented, as have the translated extracts from The Visions of Piers Plowman (with the account of the Harrowing of Hell). Modernized versions of the Chester Play of Noah and the Seven Deadly Sins episode from The Castle of Perseverance join the Second Shepherds' Play and Everyman in the Theater section. Ballads and lyric poetry have also been changed and amplified to link with a notable innovation: the section entitled Women's Writing and Women's Experience, an introduction to Middle English prose written by and for women. [via]More editions of Medieval English Literature:
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Medieval English Literatureby J.B. Trapp, Joseph Burney TrappISBN 0195016246 (0-19-501624-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval English Literature'Book summary:This volume includes a verse translation of Beowulf, Chaucer's General Prologue and five of the Canterbury Tales (including The Franklin's Tale) with guides to grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeen Middle English lyrics, ten popular ballads, Everyman, and The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play. [via]
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Medieval English Literatureby Thomas J. GarbatyISBN 0669033510 (0-669-03351-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Agesby J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann, Robert M. JurgaISBN 0306813580 (0-306-81358-0)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A Translation of the Principal Libri Poenitentiales and Selections from Related Documentsby John T. McNeill, Helena M. GamerISBN 0231096291 (0-231-09629-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Agesby Norman F. CantorISBN 0060925795 (0-06-092579-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Agesby C. H. LawrenceISBN 0582404274 (0-582-40427-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500by Henrietta LeyserISBN 0312212798 (0-312-21279-8)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Paston Lettersby Norman DavisISBN 0192816152 (0-19-281615-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spellingby Norman DavisISBN 0192836404 (0-19-283640-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Plantagenet Chroniclesby Elizabeth HallamISBN 0517140764 (0-517-14076-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Reign of Chivalryby Richard W. BarberISBN 0312669941 (0-312-66994-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Return of Martin Guerreby Natalie DavisISBN 0674766911 (0-674-76691-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode.
Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.
Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.
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A Secret Historyby Mary GentleISBN 0380788691 (0-380-78869-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Shadowheartby Laura KinsaleISBN 042516232X (0-425-16232-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Three Edwardsby Thomas B. CostainISBN 0445085134 (0-445-08513-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Trial of the Templarsby Malcolm BarberISBN 0521672368 (0-521-67236-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Weddingby Julie GarwoodISBN 0671871005 (0-671-87100-5)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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El Enigma Sagrado / Sacred Mysteryby Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, Michael BaigentISBN 8427027567 (84-270-2756-7)
Softcover, Martinez Roca S A Ediciones
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El Enigma Sagrado/ the Holy Blood and the Holy Grailby Richard Leigh, Michael BaigentISBN 8427030983 (84-270-3098-3)
Softcover, Booket
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El Maestro Iluminador/ the Illuminating Teacherby Brenda Rickman VantreaseISBN 8496231402 (84-96231-40-2)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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