Turnbull, Stephanie.
Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TURSummary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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Bingham, Jane
Summary: An illustrated description of ancient life-styles and cultures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT History BinghamFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.7 FABCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What FabinyJones, Molly M. (Molly McGregor)
Summary: Explore the world of medieval knights, including their history and famous battles, uniforms and weapons, and training and tactics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J932 CHIMacdonald, Fiona
Summary: Describes life for a medieval knight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Set You 940.108 MacdonaldMacdonald, Fiona.
Summary: Describes what life was like in medieval dungeons during the late fifteenth century, as seen through the eyes of the jailer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 940.1 MacdonaldSummary: From the late stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, this course covers western history from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Beginning in the ancient Near East, moving to Greece and Rome, the course explores the shape and impact of large ancient empires, including those of Persia and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FOUCall number: DVD 909 FOU PART 1
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Burgan, Michael
Summary: "The Middle Ages come to life in this latest installment in the hit Weird But True Know-It-All series, featuring stories of legendary rulers, epic castles, menacing weaponry, and more!Vikings are known for being fierce warriors. But did you know that they used tug-of-war to train for battle-and that the losing team got pulled into a pit of fire? Europe was ravaged by the plague during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners, LLC 2023
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Summary: Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 DAIPetersen, David
Summary: Inside the June Alley Inn, located in the western mouse city of Barkstone, mice gather to enjoy the renowned hospitality of June herself. On one particular evening, the subject of unpaid drink tabs leads to a contest. Whichever patron can weave the best tale for June's ears will have their past tab cleared entirely. With such an alluring prize up for grabs, the eager patrons begin telling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia Entertainment 2014
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Summary: "Lady Alix Oliver, 16, stares in horror. She and her brother William, 14, are trapped in Trowleigh castle. They are being held hostage by a horde of Danish mercenaries ordered there by Prince John. The children's father, Baron Justin Oliver, cannot help. He has suddenly gone missing in the Third Crusade. King Richard, the Lionheart, a close friend of the Olivers, cannot help either. He has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stout-Castle Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUTSummary: Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages - fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 MEDSummary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARBiesty, Stephen.
Summary: Working from plans of an actual 14th century European castle, Stephen Biesty has sliced the building into various cross-sections, each one teeming with life and detail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 BIEOsborne, Will.
Summary: Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 1993Wrede, Klaus-Jürgen
Summary: Players place land tiles to develop roads, cities, fields, and cloisters, and deploy their followers as thieves, farmers, knights and monks to score points as they develop the land around the medieval city of Carcassonne.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Z-Man Games 2015
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Summary: "Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages-- fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 ARM PART 1Stokes, Jonathan W.
Summary: A guide to the Middle Ages for time travelers covers such topics as the Holy Roman Empire, Vikings, the Crusades, and medieval castles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.07 STOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.07 STOSummary: The players of this game are to build the Alhambra in Spain during the Middle Ages. In addition to having sufficient money, the players have to choose and lead the most suitable teams of builders.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Queen Games 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSummary: Dr. Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University, where she has taught since 2002. The holder of an A.B. in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Duke University, she also taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and at California State University, Long Beach. Her research interests...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 1Call number: CD 940.1 ARM PART 2
Gitlin, Marty.
Summary: This entertaining volume reveals some of the grossest practices in hygiene, dining, fashion, and medicine of Medieval Europe. Serfs often smelled bad, and they bathed and relieved themselves in streams filled with garbage. Wealthier individuals who had bathrooms produced waste that was sent down chutes into the castle moat. Peasants and nobles commonly consumed animal parts that today we would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2016