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  • Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)

    • ASIN: B003JBHV04
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

    From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwe... [Read More]

  • The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel (Kingsbridge)

    • ASIN: 0451166892
    • ISBN: 0451166892
    • Brand: Signet
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    View our Ken Follett feature page. Learn more about The Pillars of the Earth miniseries on Starz. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic—a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral—stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity

  • The Raven in the Foregate (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Book 12)

    • ASIN: B00LUZNWJA
    • Manufacturer: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

    When a harsh priest is drowned, Brother Cadfael discovers a long list of suspects, including a young man who isn’t who he claims to beIn a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishioners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew�... [Read More]

  • The Golden Crucifix: A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery (Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mysteries Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0797H6HTJ

    King's Coroner Matthew Cordwainer investigates the deaths by strangulation of three city prostitutes in thirteenth-century York. The investigation is complicated by the Sheriff of York’s desire to use suspicion of the murders to arrest a thief and smuggler whom Cordwainer is certain is not the culprit, and it is hindered by Cordwainer’s advance... [Read More]

  • The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieval Mysteries Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01H7FQ67G
    • Manufacturer: Shakenoak Press

    Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Farringdon floating in the river Cherwell, it looks like a drowning. Soon, however, Nicholas finds evidence of murder. Who could have wanted to kill this promising student? As Nicholas and his scholar friend Jordain try to unravel what lies behind Willia... [Read More]

  • Ulysses (The Gabler Edition)

    • ASIN: 0394743121
    • ISBN: 0394743121
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Birds Without Wings

    • ASIN: 1400079322
    • ISBN: 9781400079322
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Size: Paperback
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they w... [Read More]

  • Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0141439947
    • ISBN: 0141439947
    • Brand: Penguin Classics
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Domesday Book is one of the most famous documents in English history—and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Latin, together with an index of places and a glossary of terms used. Domesday was compiled in a matter of months in 1086, at the end of William the Con... [Read More]

  • The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

    • ASIN: 0060006935
    • ISBN: 0060006935
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaste... [Read More]

  • The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

    • ASIN: 0300098251
    • ISBN: 0300098251
    • Brand: Yale University Press
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transfo... [Read More]

  • One Hundred & One Beautiful Towns in Great Britain (101 Beautiful Small Towns)

    • ASIN: 0847830500
    • ISBN: 0847830500
    • Brand: Brand: Rizzoli
    • Manufacturer: Rizzoli

    A sequel to the highly successful One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Italy and One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France, this book is a unique photographic tour of the most beautiful towns in every region of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The towns of Britain’s countryside are among the most charming and unchange... [Read More]

  • Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation

    • ASIN: 0399563237
    • ISBN: 9780399563232
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary   When Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europ... [Read More]

  • Oval Tablecloth for Thanksgiving, Catering Events, Dinner Parties, Special Occasions or Everyday Use Famous Telephone Booth and The Big Ben in England Street View Symbols of Town Retro 64 x120inch Re

    • ASIN: B07VS6JBWJ
    • Brand: Sweetg Tablecloths
    • Size: 64" x 120" Oval
    • Manufacturer: HongKong Fudan Investment Co., Limited

    Why you choose our tablecloth? A versatility easy care polyester tablecloth is your best choice, made from eco-friendly material. Durable than any other plastic table cover. Because of their heavy construction and mufti-functional feature can perfectly protect your table and also drope beautifully over your table decorative. Dress up your table for... [Read More]

  • Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7)

    • ASIN: 014029435X
    • ISBN: 014029435X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin

    An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive--a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.

  • Stratford-upon-Avon

    • ASIN: B01N16IJBB

  • Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

    • ASIN: 0143113259
    • ISBN: 0143113259
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone’s thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling—and shaping—thirteenth-century Europe Set against the backdrop of the thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, troubadors, knights and monarchs, Four Queens is the story of four provocativ... [Read More]

  • Order in Chaos (A Templar Novel Book 3)

    • ASIN: B004IE9REY
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The new Templar novel from the USA Today bestselling author On the morning of October 13, 1307, every Templar knight in France is arrested by the order of King Philip IV, who then seizes all the Order's assets and set the Inquisition against them. Warned of the plot, Sir William St. Clair flees from France with the Temple's treasure, several hund... [Read More]

  • Lonely is the Knight: A Merriweather Sisters Time Travel Romance (A Knights Through Time Romance Book 3)

    • ASIN: B018SSZ9AQ

    Travel through time... Both sisters lost to the mists of time.Check.Attempted murder.Check.Actually traveling through time to medieval England?Triple check.Beware ghosts trying to help…Charlotte Merriweather didn’t plan to steal the gorgeous low-slung sports car. But in her defense it was just sitting there running, with the door open, beckonin... [Read More]

  • Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History

    • ASIN: 0195093844
    • ISBN: 9780195093841
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

    When Barbara Hanawalt's acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt's book "as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides" and he concluded that "one comes ... [Read More]

  • Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)

    • UPC: 786936145076
    • ASIN: B00005K3OT
    • ISBN: 0788827006
    • Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
    • Manufacturer: Miramax

    Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, Best Actress (Juliette Binoche -- THE ENGLISH PATIENT), and Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench -- SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE), CHOCOLAT is the beautiful and captivating comedy from the acclaimed director of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES! Nobody could have imagined the impact that the striking Vianne (Bino... [Read More]

  • Top 10 Most Beautiful Villages In England You Must See

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