Where the Middle Ages Begin
Betrayed: The Legend of Oak Island Dinsdale, Christopher Publisher:Napoleon & Company ISBN: 9781894917919 Summary The fate of the known world is settled on the shores of Canada… Christopher Dinsdale’s third historical adventure for young readers begins in Scotland. Connor MacDonald and his mother have encountered Henry Sinclair, Norwegian prince and Earl of Orkney, who rescues […]
Heroes of the Valley By Jonathan Stroud Publisher:Hyperion Books for Children, Nov 22, 2010 ISBN:978-1423109662 Summary Halli Sveinsson has grown up in the House of Svein, listening to the legends of the heroes as all his forefathers did. His is a peaceful society where the violence of the past has been outlawed and disputes are […]
Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children Buckberry, Jo Assemblage, Issue 5 (2000) Abstract Sam Lucy (1994: 26) has stated that a ‘recognised feature of pre-Christian early medieval cemeteries in eastern England is the smaller number of younger burials recovered’. Although taphonomic factors such as the increased rate of decay of […]
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village By Laura Amy Schlitz Candlewick Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7636-1578-9 Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons — in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling […]
Keeper Of The Grail By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, September 18, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247637 1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan has joined the Knights Templar as a squire, journeying with Richard the Lionheart on his crusade to free the Holy Land from the Saracens. As defeat looms near, Tristan is entrusted with […]
Trail of Fate By Michael P. Spradlin Publisher: Penguin Young Reader Group, November 3, 2009 ISBN: 9780399247644 In the Middle Ages, young squire Tristan of the Knights Templar, King’s Archer Robard, and Muslim assassin Maryam work together to protect the Holy Grail as they travel across France toward England, a journey that takes them to […]
Time Warp Trio is a series of children’s novels and a television series aimed at kids aged 7 to 10. The premise of the novels and series is that three friends go on various adventures set back in history (or in the future), including several set in medieval times, with the use of a magical […]
The way in which children’s authors have translated medieval history into their own “historicity” has changed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as popular and scholarly attitudes toward the Middle Ages have changed. Looking at these changes, my purpose in this thesis will be to answer two questions: why would children’s authors draw upon Anglo-Saxon England for their subject matter? And, what relevance does children’s literature have for an audience of medievalists?
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