middle ages

A portrait of the Middle Ages, studying the process of religious, intellectual, and geographic exploration that led medieval people into the rebirth of civilization known as the Renaissance.

"In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--.

Step inside the lord's castle where Sir Gilbert is training to become a knight. Find out what it takes to survive and succeed in these times of chivalry and danger as he teaches you how to joust in tournaments, gallop into battle, feast after victory, survive a stint in a dungeon, and more. Do you have the skills and guts to be a medieval knight?.

A fourteenth-century Scottish boy joins a Templar knight on a quest to locate an ancient relic, while he tries to understand and control his own gift of prophetic visions.

The time period from the Fall of Rome to the middle of the fifteenth century is explained in the artwork created and the words spoken by people in various cultures.

Readers will engage with women's lives during an important historical period.

"Ellie is USA's best shot at Olympic gold in archery, but one wrong turn in Nottingham on her day off from the trials and she's somehow been transported back to the Middle Ages. Amidst an evil sheriff who wants to lock her up, a knight who might not be who he says he is, and an assassination plot, she must not only find her way back to the present, but fight to survive and not change history"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the Middle Ages, covering various empires, conquests, religions, cultural movements, and civilizations around the world, with detailed maps depicting migrations, types of subsistence, populations, religious centers, and more. Includes teacher notes.