13th century

While telling about his life in Medieval England, eight-year-old Robin includes information about families and homes, food and clothes, castles, markets, tournaments, and beliefs of the people.

In the winter of 1208 while the dispute between the Pope and the Cathars intensifies, thirteen-year-old Lady Elinor, secretely in love with the troubadour Bertran de Miramont and determined to avoid her imminent marriage to an older man, runs away from her family's castle disguised as an apprentice troubadour, unaware of the dangers ahead as the Albigensian Crusade begins its onslaught on her native Languedoc.

The Blue Flame, sparked at the moment of Christ's death, is in danger of falling into the wrong hands yet again as northern enemies draw near, and as a new religious crusade begins, the love between lifelong friends Raimon, son of a Cathar weaver, and Yolanda, daughter of a Catholic count, is threatened.

History of the kings of England from the signing of the Magna Carta to the time of the black death taken from contemporary accounts such as the Barnwell chronicle, the chronicle of Thomas Wykes, the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, the Lanercost chronicle, Choricon Gaslfridi le Baker de Swyndbroke, and others.

In England in the late thirteenth century, a young chorister at the Cathedral of Saint Aelred, outcast because of his crippled foot, sympathizes with the city's other outcasts, the Jews, and sets out to prove their leader innocent of murder.

History of the kings of England from the signing of the Magna Carta to the time of the black death taken from contemporary accounts such as the Barnwell chronicle, the chronicle of Thomas Wykes, the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, the Lanercost chronicle, Choricon Gaslfridi le Baker de Swyndbroke, and others.

In France in 1209, Pagan, now an archdeacon, takes on a new scribe named Isidore, a fifteen-year-old epileptic and an orphan, and together they try to survive the siege of Carcassonne.

Presents an examination of the Magna Carta, an agreement negotiated in 1215 between King John of England and his barons after the barons revolted in protest against increasing demands from the crown for money and services, and includes biographies of significant people, and selections from primary documents.

In 1242 in the restive Languedoc region of France, Parsifal, having been charged as a child to guard an important religious relic, has lived in hiding for much of his life until he befriends a young couple on opposite sides of the escalating conflict between the Catholics and the Cathars.