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  The Agony and the Ecstasy

  by Irving Stone

  Fictional depiction of Michelangelo. Includes bibliography, glossary and a list of the artist's works.
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  The Lady and the Unicorn (Unabridged)

  by Tracy Chevalier

  A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions... (more)
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  Prioress' Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Margaret Frazer

  When Domina Alys becomes prioress of St. Frideswide, the convent becomes a guest house for her disagreeable and greedy relatives, until a long-standing family feud leads to kidnapping and murder, and it is up to Sister Frevisse to find a killer and rid the convent of its unwelcome guests. Original."
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  The Widow's Tale (Dame Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)

  by Margaret Frazer

  Dame Frevisse is embroiled in political intrigue when she aids a widow who is holding on to secret information that could be damaging to the lords closest to the king.
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  The Reeve's Tale (Sister Frevisse)

  by Margaret Frazer

  As illness and murder cast a cloud over Prior Byfield, fear and suspicion reign-and Frevisse's keen deductions lead her closer to the disturbing truth.
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  The Hunter's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Margaret Frazer

  When the vicious Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, Dame Frevisse finds that the evil that men do sometimes does live after them.
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  Azincourt

  by Bernard Cornwell

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  Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations : To 1700

  Volume 1 of this anthology of primary, visual and secondary sources provides an introduction to the sources historians use, the kinds of interpretations historians make and the history of Western civilization from the Renaissance to the present. A broad selection of documents, photographs, maps and charts is presented along with introductions, commentaries, guides and questions designed to place each section in a... (more)
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  Tales of the Alhambra

  by Washington Irving

• GREAT AGES OF MAN AGE OF EXPLORATION

  

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  GREAT AGES OF MAN AGE OF EXPLORATION

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  Henry IV. Part one

  by William Shakespeare

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  The Boy's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Margaret Frazer

  When an attempt is made on the lives of Henry VI's young half-brothers, the boys are offered sanctuary by Sister Frevisse, who is called upon for more than protection when the killers enter St. Frideswide's walls.
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  The Bastard's Tale

  by Margaret Frazer

  Reporting on the politics and plotting of the royal court for an ambitious bishop, Dame Frevisse is instead drawn into a dangerous maelstrom encircling the throne of England. The pity is that desperate acts of loyalty and love are not always enough to save men from murder-and an innocent man from the gallows.
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  Medieval People

  by Eileen Edna Power

  Classic study by a prominent medieval scholar vividly recreates the lives of six ordinary people who lived between the ninth and sixteenth centuries: a peasant on a country estate in Charlemagne’s time, a Venetian traveler of the 13th century; a prioress and a middle-class Parisian housewife of the 14th century; and a merchant and a cloth maker from the days of Henry VII. A lively account that will capture the... (more)
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  The Maiden's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Margaret Frazer

  A visit at the home of Sister Frevisse's cousin Lady Alice becomes dangerous--for this home houses a secret that has turned deadly. Alice is involved in dangerous political machinations with the duc of Orleans and King Henry VI. Private correspondence has been routed through the Suffolks' home, but now the messenger has been brutally slain. Can Sister Frevisse find the traitor and murderer before he strikes... (more)
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  The Squire's Tale (Dame Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)

  by Margaret Frazer

  Drawn from her nunnery's contemplative quiet by the domestic turmoil of a noble family, Dame Frevisse must see that justice is done when honest love and dishonest lust spawn murder. "Meticulous detail that speaks of trustworthy scholarship and a sympathetic imagination." ( New York Times ) "As exquisitely woven as a medieval tapestry...Frazer's research is dazzling." ( Cleveland Plain Dealer )
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  William Marshall

  by Georges Duby

  Recreates in detail the life of this advisor to the Plantagnets and knight extraordinaire.
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  A Play of Isaac (Joliffe Mysteries)

  by Margaret Frazer

  When his band of traveling players are taken in by a patron, Joliffe and company find that murder has taken their place in the spotlight--and it's up to them to catch a killer in the act.
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  A Survey of European Civilization

  by Wallace K. Ferguson, Geoffrey Bruun

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  The Cross by Day, Mezuzzah by Night

  by Deborah Spector Siegel

  Seville, 1492: A year of glory and fame in Christian Spain. Two great edicts have come forth from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel. One is thrilling, granting the renowned explorer Cristobal Coln permission to find new passages to India. But the other edict is cruel and backward, an order for the expulsion of all the Jewish people from Spain. But Isabel Caruso de Caravallo, a Catholic girl of wealth and ... (more)