The Traitor’s Tale, by Margaret Frazer
The Traitor’s Tale (Dame Frevisse Series) By Margaret Frazer Berkley Prime Crime ISBN: 0425213706 Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide’s nunnery is in…
The Three Kings of Cologne, by Kate Sedley
The Three Kings of Cologne By Kate Sedley Severn House ISBN: 0727864815 Alderman John Foster wishes to give his home city of…
Storyteller, by G.R. Grove
Storyteller By G.R. Grove Lulu.com ISBN: 143030524X “Blood and fire, gold and steel and poetry, a river’s voice in the silence of…
Stolen Away, by Christopher Dinsdale
Stolen Away By Christopher Dinsdale Napoleon Publishing ISBN: 1894917200 For young adults. Keira, kidnapped from her home in Ireland by the Viking…
The Silver Cup, by Constance Leeds
The Silver Cup Constance Leeds Viking ISBN: 0670061573 For young adults: It’s the year 1095, and fifteen-year-old Anna longs for a different…
The Religion: A Novel, by Tim Willocks
The Religion: A Novel By Tim Willocks Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0-374-24865-6 The Religion is the first book of the Tannhauser Trilogy. …
A Mortal Glamour, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
A Mortal Glamour By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Juno Books ISBN: 0-8095-5794-0 A dark tale of obsession, possession, and passion set in the tumultuous…
Mistress of the Art of Death, by Ariana Franklin
Mistress of the Art of Death: A Novel By Ariana Franklin Putnam ISBN: 0399154140 In medieval Cambridge, four children have been murdered.…
Midnight Eyes, by Sarah Brophy
Midnight Eyes Sarah Brophy Zebra Books ISBN: 0821780948 A medieval historical romance set in England during the reign of William…
1212: Year of the Journey, by Kathleen McDonnell
1212: Year of the Journey By Kathleen McDonnell Second Story Press ISBN: 1-897187-11-4 For young adults: In a world where thousands are dying over…
Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Ysabel By Guy Gavriel Kay In this exhilarating, moving new work, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which…
The Windmill: A Medieval ‘Steam Engine’?
Examines the invention and development of the Windmill in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, including how these machines worked. Further discussion is given on the use of windmills in England during the early fourteenth century.
Crusades: Destruction
Crusades: Destruction is the fourth part of the Crusades with Terry Jones series. Terry Jones reports on how Richard the Lionheart set out…
Crusades: Jihad
Crusades: Jihad is the third part of Crusades with Terry Jones. He describes how the crusaders lost Jerusalem in 1144 to Zengi, the…
Crusades: Jerusalem
Crusades: Jerusalem is the second part of the Crusades with Terry Jones. In this episode, the narrator sets out on the 1000-mile walk…
Byzantium: The Lost Empire
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world – the origin of great literature, fine art…
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor
Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor By N. Harry Rothschild Longman, ISBN: 978-0-321-39426-2 Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China is the account of the…
Wu Zhao’s Remarkable Aviary
Despite these fertile pre-conditions, the biological fact that Wu Zhao was a woman presented serious problems in her effort to assume the dragon throne. Even in these open times, the Confucian bureaucracy held great political sway just as patriarchal values, which held to the principle that “the male is venerated and the female is denigrated” (nan zun nu bei 男尊女卑), still exerted tremendous social influence.
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy By Charles Wendell David Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920 This book covers the life of Robert Curthose, son…
A Mediaeval Burglary
A 24-page lecture from 1915 about a little known burglary of King Edward I’s treasure room in 1303. There remains some mystery of who did it, this real-life story has drama, interesting characters, scandal, cover-up, and provides a sense and feel of the times from a ground-up perspective. Includes a hand-drawn map and two relevant manuscript pages.
Travel Videos: Florence
Here are list of travel videos featuring the city of Florence (Firenze), Italy.