middle ages

Volume one of a two-volume set explaining how invading and migrating barbarian tribes contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, and documenting how the blending of Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures birthed a new civilization in Western Europe, creating the modern nation-state. Entries from A to K discuss political transformation, changing religious practices in daily life, sculpture and the arts, material culture, and social structure, and provide biographies of important men and women.

Now chief of Dun Alyn, fifteen-year-old Ilena disgraces herself on the battlefield and, while subsequently exiled from her people, becomes involved in a plan to rescue King Arthur from his Saxon captors.

Maps, charts, illustrations, and text explore the history and culture of the Middle Ages.

When her father, a goldsmith and master mage, dies during the siege of their Italian village, fifteen-year-old Fiametta finds her own fledgling magic tested in the ensuing battle against the evil Lord Ferrante.

Contains thirty-seven groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to the Crusades, from 1095 to 1291, followed by two opposing opinions.

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.

Contains descriptive articles on fifteen aspects of life in medieval Europe, including serfs, religion, and the Black Death, as well as six important people, and features photos, color maps and illustrations, and vocabulary boxes.

In 1171 twelve-year-old Hugh, burdened with a crippled leg since birth, is unhappy when his nobleman father, forced into exile in the bloody aftermath of King Henry's confrontation with Archbishop Thomas Becket, leaves him in the care of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.