middle ages

As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.

Presents a variety of information about life in the Middle Ages, including a story about a woman whose suspicions are aroused when a young man returns from the Crusades claiming to be her son; factual accounts; activities, stickers, and picture cards.

Presents miscellaneous facts about castles and life in medieval times.

Describes Marco Polo's boyhood in thirteenth-century Venice, his travels in Asia, his time in the court of Kublai Khan, and his legacy.

When pirates raid a village in ninth-century Norway, eighteen-year-old Toki is captured as a prize, while Freydis, his younger sister, is taken to a friendly village where she and her African slave, Enno, learn that their fates are linked by prophecy.

Traces the history of Medieval Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the late 1600s; and covers topics including Justinian, Viking expansion, the Byzantine Empire, the Crusades, Medieval arts and crafts, and the development of individual countries of Europe.

Contains a collection of famous European tales beginning with Beowulf and concluding with El Cid.

Describes the weapons and armor used by soldiers during the four-hundred-year period of invasions, wars, migrations, and unrest in Europe that followed the break-up of the stable patterns of the Roman Empire.

Provides an account of the lives and activities of knights based on an examination of documents they wrote themselves, and compares those first-person accounts with the writings of poets and chroniclers of the time.