14th century

A pictorial survey of British history and civilization during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Examines the history of fourteenth-century Europe as background to the life of Enguerrand de Coucy VII, one of the most prominent French knights of that time.

Presents an overview of life in fourteenth-century England as historical context for Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," covering the social hierarchy and social mobility, views of the Church, warfare and rebellion, the Black Death, the Earth-centered universe and science, medicine, food, work, clothing, courtship, family, schooling, and recreation.

In Kingsbridge during the year 1327, four children witness two men being killed in the forest; and years later, even though they have grown apart, they are connected by what they saw.