1154-1399, plantagenets

Joan of Kent, a high-spirited girl in fourteenth-century England, is sent to the court of King Edward III where she plots to create a scandal with Edward, Prince of Wales, in retaliation for her father's downfall and death, but she finds herself growing to love Edward, and is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns he returns her feelings.

A reclusive cloth merchant hires disgraced knight Crispin Guest to verify his suspicions that his young wife is being unfaithful, but the case becomes complicated when the merchant is found murdered in a room locked from the inside.

Relates the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade.

Thirteen-year-old Marian and her friend Robin team up to rescue her father whom the Sheriff has wrongly condemned to death.

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

A scholarly edition of William Shakespeare's play "King Richard II" that includes detailed notes and commentary, an illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural, and performance contexts, an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play, and a bibliography of references and further reading.

Compares the events and characters in Shakespeare's nine historical plays with actual events in England during the period the dramas represent, and concludes that while the playwright was a reliable historian, he did not hesitate to take liberties with fact in order to enhance his fiction.

The creator of Richard Sharpe offers this second volume in his new series about the quest for the Holy Grail. Thomas of Hookton is a loyal soldier of Edward III during the Hundred Years War. He is sworn to find his father's killer, a villain who stole a priceless relic.

A biography of the woman who inherited one-quarter of modern day France at age fifteen, became queen of France and later queen of England, as well as the mother of Richard Coeur de Lion.