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Summary: Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a kinsman of Beowulf.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BARHilliam, David.
Summary: Relates how King Richard I of England and his troops nearly wrested Jerusalem from Muslim leader Saladin and the Saracens during the Third Crusade in 1191 A.D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Pub. Group 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.18 HILDeary, Terry
Summary: "Want to know: Why the vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking? Which Viking god dressed up as a woman? A genuine jester's joke? Why medieval chickens had their bottoms shaved? Discover all the facts about the Vicious Vikings and Measly Middle Ages--double the gore and more"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 DEASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Whyte, Jack
Summary: "Some men strive for greatness. And some men find themselves thrust into the role of their nation's saviors. Such are the two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic, commoner in medieval British history; the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHYHaywood, John
Summary: In 800, the Scandinavians were barbarians in longships bent only on plunder and rapine. But as these Norse warriors left their northern strongholds to trade, raid, and settle across wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic, their violent and predatory culture left a unique imprint on medieval history. So much so that, by 1200, the Viking homelands had become an integral part of Latin...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948 HAYBagge, Sverre
Summary: "Christianity and European-style monarchy--the cross and the scepter--were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the age of the Vikings to the Reformation, written by Scandinavia's leading medieval historian. Sverre Bagge shows how the rise...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.023 BAGWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIAckroyd, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 WEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIDoherty, P. C.
Summary: While attending a mystery play performed by the Straw Men, an acting troupe, Brother Athelstan comes across a violent double murder, and he must find the culprit and discover if the royal court has a spy in their midst.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOHWeir, Alison.
Summary: Recounts one of the love stories of medieval England. This is a tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SWYNFORD, KATHERINE WEISummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLPlaidy, Jean
Summary: Richard the Second was losing his hold on the crown and ambitious eyes were turning toward it. Henry of Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, had married the heiress Mary de Bohun and by her had six children, the eldest of whom was Harry of Monmouth. Bolingbroke was exiled by the King but returned to England when Richard confiscated John of Gaunt's estates. Bolingbroke came to claim them—and at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLASharratt, Mary
Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHADoherty, P. C.
Summary: December, 1380. When the corpse of Sir Robert Kilverby is discovered in a locked room, Brother Athelstan accompanies the King's coroner to investigate. For Sir Robert had in his possession a priceless relic, a sacred bloodstone, which has now disappeared.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOHDe Angeli, Marguerite
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel-Leaf Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DE ACornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Bâtard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORDe Angeli, Marguerite
Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEACornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poiters and French King John II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cornwell 2013Cornwell, Bernard.
Summary: While fearsome French and Scottish armies sharpen their blades for war, English archer Thomas of Hookton is given a special mission. Sent to norhern England, he searches for the ultimate weapon - the Holy Grail. Legend tells that the Grail was once held by Thomas' family, so he is the ideal man to look for it. But he's not the only one tracking the omnipotent relic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: While fearsome French and Scottish armies sharpen their blades for war, English archer Thomas of Hookton is given a special mission. Sent to norhern England, he searches for the ultimate weapon - the Holy Grail. Legend tells that the Grail was once held by Thomas' family, so he is the ideal man to look for it. But he's not the only one tracking the omnipotent relic.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. Now the lone survivor of his family and a fugitive, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he’ll have to do what he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MAT (Graphic Novel)Whyte, Jack.
Summary: In London's Smithfield Prison in 1305, condemned patriot William Wallace imparts the remarkable story of the Scottish Wars of Independence to a priest in the pre-dawn hours before his execution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012