1154-1399, plantagenets

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1154-1399, plantagenets

The illuminator

2005
In late-fourteenth-century England, Finn, a master illuminator, works on an English translation of the Bible, but fears that if his work is discovered he will be persecuted by the Church.

Blaze of silver

2008
Using principles of their shared Muslim faith to persuade him, an agent of the Old Man of the Mountain convinces Kamil to lead Will and Ellie into a trap, but Kamil repents and seeks a way to save his friends and redeem himself.

Cruel as the grave

a medieval mystery
1998
Justin de Quincy, working on behalf of Eleanor of Aquitaine to find her missing son Richard Lionheart and prevent Prince John from usurping the throne, is distracted when he becomes obsessed with the death of a beautiful, beloved young girl found murdered in a local churchyard.

The queen's man

a medieval mystery
2000
Justin de Quincy, the illegitimate son of a high cleric, becomes invaluable to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine when he delivers a letter to her with information about the fate of her first-born son, Richard Lionheart, England's king.

The life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine

2010
Presents the life and accomplishments of the twelfth-century ruler, who became the queen of France and then England.

The Merchant's daughter

2011
In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.

Ivanhoe

a romance
2009
Ivanhoe, a Saxon knight, returns home to England from the Third Crusade in 1194 to claim the love of the beautiful Rowena.

The hunting of the last dragon

2003
In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon.

The telling pool

2005
Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.

Thomas Becket

English saint and martyr
2005
Presents a biography of the twelfth-century archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, and the power struggle between the church and state under King Henry II of England and chronicles his early life, the historical background of the king, and Becket's defiance of the king and subsequent martyrdom.

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