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Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger.
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Elyce escapes unscrupulous King Conrad by taking a sleeping potion, and after Sir Gerard wakes her with a kiss they begin their journey to Prague in the dead of winter.
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Description
England, 1381. Delia's quiet life as the daughter of an earl is shattered when her seven brothers are betrayed by their father and falsely arrested for treason and murder. With the Peasants' Revolt threatening the peace of the kingdom, King Richard II is executing anyone who poses a threat to his throne. Delia infiltrates the palace as a seamstress for the new queen so she can be near her brothers. She discovers Sir Geoffrey, the guard captain who...
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
"Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales brings together an unforgettable group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, pilgrims who came from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and the famously lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales are as various as the tellers, including romance, bawdy comedy, beast fable, learned debate, parable, and Eastern adventure. The resulting collection gives us a set of characters so vivid...
7) The jester
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
1899.
Language
English
Description
First appearing as an anonymous serial in "Harper's Magazine" in 1895, "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" was Mark Twain's final novel and was published as a complete work under his name in 1896. The novel is a stark departure from Twain's usual comic and satirical writings, which is why Twain insisted it initially be published anonymously so that the public would take it seriously. The work is told from the perspective of a fictionalized version...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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Description
In this hilarious book that takes history seriously, a British actor and comedian introduces England's earliest kings and queens, who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits, revealing a story of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, uncivil wars and more.
11) Timeline
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An archaeologist gets sent back in time to 14th century France, and his son travels back to rescue him.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans), published in 1860. The novel was originally published in three parts. It was very successful and was adapted into a film as early as 1937. It was Eliot's second novel and one of her most successful of all time. The novel tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England....
Series
World history beginnings to the new world volume Discs 15-16
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Using dramatic reenactments, state of the art cinematography, location shooting, CGI and 3-D animation, historians and experts talk about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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