14th century

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Morality play

1995
An itinerant troupe of actors, hiding a priest among them, unwittingly hits upon the truth when they devise a play out of a murder that has taken place in the town they are visiting.

Vagabond

a novel
2002

Veil of lies

a medieval noir
2008
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.

The good men

a novel of heresy
2002
Recreates the fourteenth-century testimony of Grazida Lizier, who was tried for heresy during the Inquisition, relating a story of religious persecution where three generations are torn between spiritual grace and sensual wonder.

Serpent in the thorns

a Crispin Guest medieval noir
2009
After the French king's courier is killed by a crossbow in a tavern, a barmaid seeks the assistance of fourteenth-century detective Crispin Guest, who soon finds himself the prime suspect in the murder, one that could draw France and England into war.

Vagabond

2002
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.

The physician's tale

2007
A novel spanning two worlds caught in the midst of a horrific crisis ranges from a fourteenth-century Europe devastated by the Black Death to a near-future world in which survivors of a deadly plague struggle to rebuild the broken bonds of civilization.

Timeline

1999
A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.

You wouldn't want to work on a medieval cathedral!

a difficult job that never ends
2010
A young boy learns from his grandfather what it takes to become a master stonemason and work at the cathedral in Canterbury in the fourteenth century.

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