Medieval Family, Paperback

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unex...

Reducere. This book follows the tradition of teaching history in a story-based format. The often-politicized "social studies" approach to history focuses on ...

Reducere. The year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. Meanwhile, d...

Reducere. Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and vi...

Reducere. Book 6 in the series of Arthurian legends - retold at an easy-to-read level for younger readers! Sir Tristan leaves Camelot to defend Tintagel agai...

Reducere. Stylish and racy... An excellent book and a delight to read, written with panache and entirely convincing. Professor PETER COSS, Cardiff University...

Reducere. A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award-winning author. The winter of 11...

Reducere. He's a veritable god of beauty, position, and talent. She's a lady of sweetness, wealth, and compassion. When gorgeous Cassius de Wolfe falls for a...

This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to bec...

Description1325: England is a hotbed of paranoia under the reign of the increasingly unpredictable Edward II and his lover, Sir Hugh le Despenser. ...

Reducere. The Luttrell Psalter is one of the best-known English manuscripts. Written and illuminated in the early 14th century for Sir Geoffey Luttrell, it i...

Reducere. Jews lived in Egypt for centuries, since biblical times; nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and unde...

Reducere. I WAS BORN with the ability to prophesize the future. The destinies I dream about are impossible to alter, despite my many attempts to do so. With ...

Reducere. Heraldry, the study of family crests and medieval coats of arms, is a science and art steeped in the tradition of familial honor and shaped by stro...

Reducere. A blissful and baneful litany of human stupidity, from Italian fantastical absurdist Ermanno CavazzoniA parody of the medieval Lives of the Saints,...

Description"A standout among quest tales for middle graders." --Kirkus Reviews A heart-pounding adventure starring a strong heroine who is battling...

Reducere. Springing from the heart of medieval France, The Romance of the Faery Melusine tells the story of Raymondin of Poitiers who accidentally kills his ...

Reducere. The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone In the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone ret...

Reducere. The final adventure in the beloved and bestselling Margaret of Ashbury trilogy, which began with A Vision of Light and In Pursuit of the Green Lion...

Set in a troubled era in which King Henry II is at war with his sons, Storms and Shadows follows the fortunes of the de Braose family as they strug...

Victoria's dream was to go to England and to extract any new discoveries of Stonehenge. She never believed it possible to travel to a magical medie...

Reducere. "Readers may find themselves ordering their own DNA testing kit upon finishing this." --Publishers Weekly"The Soul of the Family Tree posits that a...

The maiden was just another treasure to be won-until she stole his heart and changed his life forever. Outraged that her beloved brother's soul is ...

Reducere. An outsider's life hangs in the balance when Sister Fidelma decides she must intervene to expose the real culprit behind the horrific slaughter of ...

Reducere. A mismatch made in heavenWar hero and heir to an earldom, Dair Fitzstuart enjoys the life of a reckless rogue. Rory Talbot, on the other hand, is a...

Reducere. The Fitz Randolph family has a fascinating history, beginning with its origins in the early Middle Ages and traced through centuries of English nob...

Reducere. Frederick II was a child of privilege. Born into two royal families, he is in line to inherit the thrones of Italy, Sicily, Germany and the Holy Ro...

In the thirteenth century, radical reformers - churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers - undertook Hherculean efforts aimed at th...

Reducere. From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readab...

This engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal a...

Paul reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the me...

Murder follows swiftly in her wake, and the worried Archbishop of York asks Owen Archer to investigate.Travelling to Leeds and Scarborough to unear...

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval c...

Reducere. Description"Thought-provoking, unthinkable, and fun, Reid's debut is perfect for fans of David Lynch, Alissa Nutting, and George Saunders."--Bookli...

Reducere. DescriptionA poor girl in medieval England gains a name, a purpose, and a future in this "delightful" and beloved Newbery Medal-winning book. Now w...

Reducere. Tuesday and Zed Furst are perfectly normal children with perfectly strange parents. Their father won't discuss his job, their mother never leaves t...

Reducere. South of Somewhere begins and ends in American writer Robert Camuto's maternal ancestral town of Vico Equense, Italy--a tiny paradise south of Napl...

The restoration of a crumbling manor house leaves Crispin Guest grappling with a troubling discovery in this entertaining medieval noir mystery. Re...

The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraord...

DescriptionJourney to the mythic worlds of the medieval Norse and discover the timeless legends that still live within us. The Poetic Edda comprise...

When Crispin Guest finds himself trapped in circumstances outside his control, he must rely on the wits of his young apprentice, Jack Tucker, to do...

DescriptionIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, and his ...

DescriptionPaul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish...

Since the deaths of her parents, Ceana Gunn has lived in the shadow of her uncle and his family. She wants nothing more than to see her clan the wa...

Reducere. Winner of the Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World OrderA lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons...

Reducere. DescriptionPhilo of Alexandria was a few years older than Jesus of Nazareth and lived longer. He belonged to a wealthy and cultured family, promine...

Reducere. First passed down orally through innumerable generations of minstrels before the presence of Christianity in Scandinavia, and written down eventual...

The daughter of a disgraced earl, she matched wits with a prince. It is the fourteenth century, the height of the Medieval Age, and at the court of...

Reducere. DescriptionIl Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center is a passport to the heart of Italy. Michelle Damiani chronicles how her American family o...

DescriptionThe Old English Baron is an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, transporting the trappings of the Gothic to medie...

"Intrigue abounds.... Robb's captivating blend of history and mystery vividly evokes medieval Scotland." --BOOKLIST Scots are gathering in Murdoch ...

The village of Maldon is controlled by the Fitzcorbucion family, led by wealthy bully Hamo Fitzcorbucion, the lord of Blackwater Castle. When Hamo'...

Reducere. Perfect for fifth grade and up, Giorgio's Miracle is an entertaining tale of faith, family, and the merciful miracles of our loving God. Meet young...

DescriptionYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, famil...

Reducere. A powerful collection of writings about Yom Kippur that will add spiritual depth and holiness to your experience of the Day of Atonement.As Rosh Ha...

Reducere. DescriptionHere is a delightful Medieval adventure, a story lovingly told within a story. In a dynamic unfolding, Grandpa delights seven-year-old M...

In medieval times an individual often needed to defend his life, his family and his property. Mercenaries earned their living by hiring out their s...

DescriptionThe trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow - the records are ...

DescriptionThorgal, his family, and his new friends Tiago and Ileniya have been captured by slavers while attempting to cross the desert. The two a...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Kempis, C.R.S.A. (Thomas van Kempen or Thomas Hemerken or Haemerken, litt. "Hammerkin" (small hammer); c. 1380 - 25 July 1471) wa...

Reducere. DescriptionC. L. Johnstone offers here a history of Scotland's noble families through the centuries, noting how they shaped the history and politic...

Reducere. From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic...

DescriptionIntroducing scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in 14th Century France Pari...

FALLENOn the eve of her profession as a nun, Lady Graeye Charwyck is called home to Medland by the father who disavowed her years earlier for the "...

HE WAS THE VILEST OF MENLizanne Balmaine has spent years honing her skills at arms, determined she will never again be at the mercy of any man. Whe...

DescriptionA year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife...

Mankind has always had a morbid fascination with poisonous plants; how their poisonous properties were discovered and developed will most likely be...

Reducere. The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 H/120...

Reducere. In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alte...

Reducere. In an effort to redeem her reputation, Ida Elisabeth imprudently marries her teenage sweetheart, Frithjof. Early in their marriage, she realizes th...