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  Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel

  by Kate Horsley

  Cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit, a sixth-century Irish nun secretly records the memories of her Pagan youth, interrupting her assigned task of transcribing Augustine and Patrick. She also writes of her fiercely independent mother, whose skill with healing plants and inner strength she inherited. She writes of her druid teacher, the brusque but magnetic Giannon, who first introduced her... (more)
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  The Warlord Chronicles: Book 3

  Excalibur

  A Novel of Arthur

  by Bernard Cornwell

  In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforgettable tale of Arthur's final struggles against the Saxons and his last attempts to triumph over a ruined marriage and ravaged dreams. This is the tale not only... (more)
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  The Warlord Chronicles: Book 2

  Enemy of God

  A Novel of Arthur

  by Bernard Cornwell

  With the Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord
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  The Warlord Chronicles: Book 1

  The Winter King

  A Novel of Arthur

  by Bernard Cornwell

  It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits... (more)
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  King Arthur and the Legends of Camelot

  by Molly Perham

  A dramatic retelling of the classic legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table captures all of the majesty of the mystical quest for the Holy Grail. All ages.
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  Women in Frankish Society (Middle Ages Series)

  by Suzanne Fonay Wemple

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  The Medieval Experience, 300-1400

  by Jill N. Claster

  This general survey of medieval European economy, society, and culture is intended as a first guide to the subject for college students. In writing The Medieval Experience , Jill Claster has been particularly concerned to demonstrate the vitality and diversity that the world of the Middle Ages achieved, despite the fact that "the physical aspects of life were exceedingly difficult." This very usable and... (more)
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  The Life of St. Benedict (480-547)

  by St. Gregory the Great

  The famous, classic life of St. Benedict, filled with miracles, holy stories and inspiring idealism. Delightful reading for all ages. Describes much of what is known about St. Benedict, including the founding of the Benedictine order.
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  Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire

  by William Rosen

  The epic story of the collision between one of nature’s smallest organisms and history’s mightiest empire During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the... (more)
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  The Last Mermaid

  by Shana Abe

  Shana Abé has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance. Now the author of The Secret Swan delivers a gift from the sea: three hauntingly beautiful tales connected by a legend, a locket, and a love beyond time. 531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the... (more)
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  Alfred's Metres of Boethius

  by Griffiths Alfred

  In this new edition of the Old English Metres of Boethius, clarity of text, informative notes and a helpful glossary have been a priority, for this is one of the most approachable of Old English verse texts, lucid and delightful. Its relative neglect by specialists will mean this text will come as a new experience to many practiced students of the language, while its clear, expositional verse style makes it an... (more)
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  Anglo Saxon Chronicle

  by G N [trans.] [intro.] Garmonsway

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  The Brendan Voyage (Modern Library Exploration)

  by Tim Severin

  Could an Irish monk in the sixth century have sailed across the Atlantic, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of Saint Brendan, Severin painstakingly researches and builds a boat identical to the small leather curragh that carried Brendan on his epic voyage. He finds a centuries-old tannery, where he buys the ox hides; he locates skilled saddle makers... (more)