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3) The jester
Author
Language
English
Description
Returning home from the Crusades, a disillusioned Hugh discovers that his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted by relic-seeking knights, a situation that prompts him to pose as a court jester in order to infiltrate the castle where his wife is imprisoned.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Candlewick Press ed.
Physical Desc
326 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After fighting the infidels in Jerusalem in 1188, Lord Roland and his squire Pagan return to Roland's castle in France where they encounter violent family feuds and religious heretics.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 425 p. : maps, geneal. table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Rachel--the youngest and most beautiful daughter of the great Talmud scholar Rashi--who is determined to stay in France and help her family save the Troyes yeshiva, the only remnant of the great centers of Jewish learning in medieval Europe.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Catherine LeVendeur mystery
Catherine LeVendeur is a creature of twelfth-century France. Her life is a mirror of that time but she is a unique spirit, determined to make her way in the world and armed with a keen mind and a curiosity that often puts her in peril. Her life is both a reflection of the bonds placed upon a woman in her society and the ways in which a strong personality can triumph and succeed in spite of those strictures. Catherine...
12) Strong as death
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After two miscarriages, the 12th Century sleuth Catherine LeVendeur and her Saxon husband travel to the shrine of St. James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to petition the saint for a child. On the way they encounter mad monks, not-so-penitent crusaders, and murder.
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