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Author
Series
Publisher
Peter Bedrick Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of women during medieval times, such as their role as wives and mothers, education, and religious beliefs and profiles women who gained political or religious power.
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Provides the basic tenents of early Christianity, explains its spread across Europe, and discusses the role of religion, superstition, and science in the daily lives of those who lived in the Middle Ages.
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The experiences of women in the Middle Ages have been receiving growing amounts of attention and we are only now beginning to appreciate the full extent of their contributions. Medieval women shaped political and domestic life, founded and nurtured religious orders and created numerous enduring literary works. Comprehensive in scope, meticulous in scholarship and accessible in style to general readers and specialists alike, this encyclopedia offers...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the roles and duties of women and girls of all social classes during the Middle Ages, looking at such areas as medieval dress and beauty, women's rights, and women of power in Europe and other lands.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Drawing on painstaking original research and an intimate knowledge of the Near East, Thomas Asbridge uncovers what drove Muslims and Christians alike to embrace the ideals of "jihad" and crusade, revealing how these holy wars reshaped the medieval world and why they continue to influence events today.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
15) We just moved!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a boy moves with his family to a bigger castle, he finds that some things about life in the new place are different, some things are the same, and he gets more comfortable the longer he is there.
Author
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Covers the different civilizations and peoples of Medieval times; includes biographical essays on significant individuals of the era; and presents a collection of excerpts from relevant letters, journal entries, poems and more from the era.
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 5
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Examines the rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science following the Dark Ages, capturing the spirit of experimentation, pageantry, and pursuit of knowledge that transformed medieval Europe and set the stages for the modern world.
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